What is Blowing Snow?

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

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