What is Weather Watch?

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property. During a watch, conditions are favorable for severe weather, but it’s important to note that a watch does not mean the severe weather that it is necessarily occurring yet.

Glossary

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

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 front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

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

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

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

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