What is Cirrostratus?
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky white, fibrous or vein-like.
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A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...