What is Blowing Snow?

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

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

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

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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