What is Climatology?

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

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

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

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

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

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

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 polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

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