What is Anticyclone?

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A cold core low is a low-pressure system where the coldest temperatures are found near the center. These systems are often...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

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

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

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

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.