What is Isobar?
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
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Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...
A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...