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What is Gale?

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy weather.

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Glossary

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

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

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

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

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

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