What is Cirriform?

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

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

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

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

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

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...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...