What is Broken Clouds?

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

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...