What is Broken Clouds?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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

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

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

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

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...