What is Occluded Front?

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...