What is Arctic High?

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

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

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

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

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.