What is Blowing Snow?

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

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

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...