What is Broken Clouds?

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

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

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

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...