What is Gale?

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

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

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

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

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