What is Broken Clouds?

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

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

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

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

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