What is Blowing Snow?

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

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

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...