What is Blowing Snow?

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

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

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

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

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A cold core low is a low-pressure system where the coldest temperatures are found near the center. These systems are often...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.