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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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Glossary

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

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

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