What is Relative Humidity?

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...

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

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 continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

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

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.