What is Cardinal Winds?
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
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A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...