What is Supercell?

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy rain.

Glossary

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

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

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

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

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

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

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

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

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