What is Anvil Cloud?
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric stability level of the atmosphere. It forms in the upper parts of thunderstorms.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...
Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...