Dark blue cloudy sky

What is Confluence?

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

Schedule a Demo Today

A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!

Contact Us

Glossary

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

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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

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

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...