What is Cirriform?

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

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

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

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...