What is Broken Clouds?

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

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

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

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