What is Humidity?

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

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

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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