What is Relative Humidity?

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

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

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

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

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...