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What is Katabatic Wind?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...

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

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...