What is Acid Rain?

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

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

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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

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

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

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

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...