What is Climatology?

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

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

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

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