What is Arctic High?

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

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

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

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

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

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