What is Arctic High?

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

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

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

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

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

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

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

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