What is Blowing Snow?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

A cold core low is a low-pressure system where the coldest temperatures are found near the center. These systems are often...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...