What is Blowing Snow?

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

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

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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

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

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...