What is Mesocyclone?
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with a funnel cloud or tornado cloud beneath it and detectable on Doppler radar.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...
A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...