What is Atmosphere?

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

The scientific study of climate, focusing on the analysis of long-term weather patterns and trends over time.

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

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

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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