What is Cirrocumulus?

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

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

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

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...