What is Cirrostratus?
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky white, fibrous or vein-like.
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The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...
The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....