What is Cirriform?

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

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

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

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

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...