What is Arctic High?

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

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

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.