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What is Gale?

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy weather.

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Glossary

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, characterized by a central eye, strong winds, and...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

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

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

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

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

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