What is Blowing Snow?

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

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

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...