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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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A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...