What is Broken Clouds?

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

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

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

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

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.