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

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

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

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

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

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.