What is Arctic Air?

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

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

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...