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What is Occluded Front?

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix of weather conditions.

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The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

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

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

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

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.