What is Blowing Dust Or Sand?

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

The scientific study of climate, focusing on the analysis of long-term weather patterns and trends over time.

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

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

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

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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