What is Blowing Snow?

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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

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

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

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