What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

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

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

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

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

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

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