What is Cirrocumulus?

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

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

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

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