What is Jet Stream?
Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet cold air masses and impact weather conditions, air travel, and more.
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The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...