What is Arctic High?

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

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

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...