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 of weather conditions.
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Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, characterized by a central eye, strong winds, and...
A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...