What is Broken Clouds?

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

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

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

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

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

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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