What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

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

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

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

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

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

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...