What is Cirriform?

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

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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