What is Blowing Snow?

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

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

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

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

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

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

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...