What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

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

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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