What is Climatology?

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

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

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

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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 measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...