What is Climatology?

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

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

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

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

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

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

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