What is Low Clouds?
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist of stratus and stratocumulus clouds, while cumuliform clouds include cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. The cloud base heights vary according to the warm or cold regions.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...