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What is Jet Stream?

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet cold air masses and impact weather conditions, air travel, and more.

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The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

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

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...