What is Climatology?

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

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

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

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

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

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

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.