What is Blowing Snow?

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...

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

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

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

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

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

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

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...