What is Warning?
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening now, developing as we speak, and is minutes away. This weather hazard poses a threat to life and property.
Glossary
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...
A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
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