What is Anticyclone?

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

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

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...