What is Broken Clouds?

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

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

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

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

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

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

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