What is Blowing Snow?

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

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

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

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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