What is Weather?

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

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

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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