What is Atmospheric River?
A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.
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A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...