What is Arctic High?

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

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

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

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

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

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

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

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...