What is Air Mass?

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

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

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

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

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

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...