What is Humidity?

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

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

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

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