What is Cirriform?

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...