What is Arctic Air?

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

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

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

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

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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