What is Circulation?

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

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