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.

Glossary

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

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

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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