What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

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

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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

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

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

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.