What is Blowing Snow?

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

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

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

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...