What is Blowing Snow?

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

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

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

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

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

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

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

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.