What is Climatology?

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

Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...

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

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

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.