What is Hail?

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

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

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

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

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

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

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...