What is Arctic Air?

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

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

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

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