What is Climatology?

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

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

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

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...