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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The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...
The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...