What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

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

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

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

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...