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What is Low Clouds?

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist of stratus and stratocumulus clouds, while cumuliform clouds include cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. The cloud base heights vary according to the warm or cold regions.

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Glossary

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

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

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

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

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

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