What is Blowing Dust Or Sand?

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

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

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

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

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

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

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

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