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...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

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

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

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...