What is Cirriform?

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

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

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