What is Blowing Snow?

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

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

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

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

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

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

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