What is Relative Humidity?
The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.
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A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...