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...

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

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

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...

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

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

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

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

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...