What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

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

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

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...