What is Cirriform?

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

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

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

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

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...