What is Blowing Snow?

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

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

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...