What is Saturation?

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

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

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

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

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

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

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