What is Blowing Snow?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

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

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

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

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

A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, characterized by a central eye, strong winds, and...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...