From setting record high temperatures to forming deserts, compressional heating describes the heating of air when compressed.

Snowpack is the buildup of winter snow in the mountains that acts as a natural reservoir, supplying much of the western U.S.

Lakeshore flooding happens when strong winds and waves push water toward the shoreline, causing rapid rises in water levels ...

Sloughing is the slow, gradual shedding of soil, rock, snow or ice from a surface, often driven by gravity and weather over ...

We all know what the air temperature is, and the dewpoint is the temperature to which the air must be cooled for saturation to occur. The mathematical difference between those two numbers is called ...

As we get deeper into the winter season, winter weather alerts will be a given. Winter weather alerts are either a watch, advisory or warning, and are issued based upon the threat level. Knowing how ...

When you look at the atmosphere over a long period of time, it appears to move like a fluid. And just like a fluid, the atmosphere often moves in waves. When meteorologists are working to determine if ...

Beyond more common weather terms lies a field of rarely used but humorous monikers to describe the weather around us. Some were just invented, some have been around for hundreds of years. Here are a ...

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