What is Blowing Snow?

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

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

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

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

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