What is Climatology?

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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