What is Climatology?

The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.

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

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

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

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

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

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

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.