What is Cirriform?

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

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 scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...