What is Arctic Air?

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

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

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.