What is Relative Humidity?

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

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 warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.