Dark blue cloudy sky

What is Low Clouds?

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist of stratus and stratocumulus clouds, while cumuliform clouds include cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. The cloud base heights vary according to the warm or cold regions.

Schedule a Demo Today

A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!

Contact Us

Glossary

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

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

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

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

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