What is Barometer?

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

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

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

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

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

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

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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

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