What is Cirrocumulus?

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

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

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.