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What is Arctic Air?

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...