What is Climatology?

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

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

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

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

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 small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

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

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