What is Sublimation?

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

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

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...