What is Climatology?

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

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

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

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

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

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

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

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

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