What is Cirriform?

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

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

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

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

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

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

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