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What is Conduction?

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when energy is transferred from molecule to molecule.

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

The scientific study of climate, focusing on the analysis of long-term weather patterns and trends over time.

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

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

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

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

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