What is Orographic Lift?
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...