What is Dew Point?

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...