What is Cirriform?

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...