What is Blowing Snow?

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

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

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

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

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

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

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

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

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

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...