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...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

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

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

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

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

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