What is Blowing Snow?

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

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

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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

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

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

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

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