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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 trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...