What is Relative Humidity?

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

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

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

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

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

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...