What is Confluence?
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...
An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...