What is Blowing Snow?

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

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

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

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

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...