What is Blowing Snow?

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

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

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

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

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

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

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

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

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

Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...