What is Arctic Air?

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...