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What is Blowing Dust Or Sand?

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

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The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

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

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 drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

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