What is Blowing Snow?

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

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

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

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

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

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...