What is Arctic High?

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

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

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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...

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

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