What is Humidity?

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

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

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

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

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

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.