What is Blowing Snow?

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...