What is Katabatic Wind?
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
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A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.