What is Occluded Front?

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

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