What is Blowing Snow?

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...

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

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.