What is Cirriform?

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

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...