What is Blowing Snow?

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

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

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

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

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

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

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....