What is Occluded Front?

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 scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

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 storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.