What is Orographic Lift?

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

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An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

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

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

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