What is Flux?

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

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

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

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

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

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

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

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...