What is Blowing Snow?

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

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

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

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

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

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...