What is Broken Clouds?

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

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

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...