What is Blowing Snow?

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

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

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

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...