What is Blowing Snow?

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

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

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...