What is Blowing Snow?

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

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

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

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

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

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

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...