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What is Flux?

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

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

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

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