What is Blowing Snow?

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

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

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

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

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

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...