What is Arctic Air?

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

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

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...