What is Cirrocumulus?

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

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

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

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...