What is Air Mass?

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

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 occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

The scientific study of climate, focusing on the analysis of long-term weather patterns and trends over time.