What is Air Mass?

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

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

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

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

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

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.