What is Isobar?

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

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

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

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

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

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