What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

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

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

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

The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

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