What is Blowing Snow?

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

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

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

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

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

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

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

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