What is Blowing Snow?

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

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

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

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

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