What is Climatology?

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

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

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.