What is Blowing Snow?

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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