What is Broken Clouds?

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

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

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

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

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...