What is Broken Clouds?

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

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

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.

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

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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....