What is Arctic High?

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

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

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

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

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

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

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

The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...