What is Hail?

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

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

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...