What is Blowing Snow?

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

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

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

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

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...