What is Climatology?

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

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

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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

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

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

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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