What is Atmospheric River?

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

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

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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...