What is Climatology?

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

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

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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 weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...