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Map
A
- Absolute Humidity
- Absolute Instability
- Absolute Temperature Scale
- Absolute Zero
- Absorption
- Abyssal Plain
- AC
- ACCAS (usually Pronounced ACK-kis)
- Accessory Cloud
- Adiabatic Process
- Advection
- Advection Fog
- Advisory
- Afos
- Air
- Air Mass
- Air Mass Thunderstorm
- Air Pollution
- Air Quality Standards
- Air-mass Thunderstorm
- Alaskan Winds
- Albedo
- Alberta Clipper
- Aleutian Low
- Algorithm
- Altimeter
- Altimeter Setting
- Altitude
- Altocumulus
- Altocumulus Castellanus
- Altostratus
- American Meteorological Society
- Anabatic Wind
- Anemometer
- Aneroid Barometer
- Anomalous Propagation
- Antarctic
- Antarctic Ocean
- Anticyclone
- Anticyclonic Rotation
- Anvil
- Anvil Crawler
- Anvil Dome
- Anvil Rollover
- Anvil Zits
- AP
- Aphelion
- Apogee
- Approaching (severe Levels)
- Arctic
- Arctic Air Mass
- Arctic Jet
- Arctic Sea Smoke
- Arcus
- Argon (A)
- Arid
- Asos
- Astronomical Twilight
- Atmosphere
- Atmospheric Pressure
- Aurora
- Autumn
- Avhrr
- Aviation Weather Center
- AVN
- Awips
- Azores High
B
- Back-building Thunderstorm
- Back-sheared Anvil
- Backing
- Backing Winds
- Backscatter
- Ball Lightning
- Barber Pole
- Baroclinic Zone
- Baroclinity
- Barograph
- Barometer
- Barometric Pressure
- Barotropic System
- Barotropy
- Barrier Winds
- Bathythermograph
- Bear's Cage
- Beaufort Wind Scale
- Beaver('s) Tail
- Bellot Winds
- Bermuda High
- Bernoulli's Theorem
- Biosphere
- Black Blizzard
- Black Ice
- Blizzard
- Blocking High
- Blowing Dust
- Blowing Sand
- Blowing Snow
- Blowing Spray
- Blue Norther
- Blue Watch (or Blue Box)
- Boiling Point
- Boulder Wind
- Boundary Layer
- Bow Echo
- Box (or Watch Box)
- Boyle's Law
- Bright Band
- BRN
- Broken
- Bubble High
- Bulk Richardson Number (or BRN)
- Bust
- Buys Ballot's Law
- BWER
C
- CA
- Calm
- Calorie
- Cap
- Cap (or Capping Inversion)
- CAPE
- Cape Verde Islands
- Carbon Dioxide (Co2)
- Catalina Eddy
- Cb
- CC
- Ceiling
- Ceiling Light
- Ceilometer
- Celestial Equator
- Celestial Sphere
- Cell
- Celsius Temperature Scale
- Central Pressure
- Centrifugal Force
- Centripetal Force
- CG
- Chaff
- Charles' Law
- Chemosphere
- Cheyenne Fog
- Chinook
- Chocolatta North
- Chromosphere
- CIN
- Circulation
- Circulation Cells
- Cirriform
- Cirrocumulus
- Cirrostratus
- Cirrus
- Civil Twilight
- Classic Supercell
- Clear
- Clear Air Turbulence
- Clear Ice
- Clear Slot
- Climate
- Climate Analysis Center (Cac)
- Climate Diagnostics Center (Cdc)
- Climate Prediction Center (Cpc)
- Climatology
- Clinometer
- Closed Low
- Cloud
- Cloud Bank
- Cloud Streets
- Cloud Tags
- Cloudburst
- Coalescence
- Cold
- Cold Advection
- Cold Air Funnel
- Cold Core Thunderstorms
- Cold Front
- Cold High
- Cold Low
- Cold Pool
- Cold Wave
- Cold-air Funnel
- Collada
- Collar Cloud
- Colorado Low
- Comma Cloud
- Comma Echo
- Condensation
- Condensation Funnel
- Condensation Nuclei
- Conditional Instability
- Conduction
- Confluence
- Congestus (or Cumulus Congestus)
- Constant Pressure Chart
- Constant Pressure Surface
- Continent
- Continental Air Mass
- Continental Shelf
- Contrail
- Convection
- Convective Condensation Level (Ccl)
- Convective Outlook (sometimes Called AC)
- Convective Temperature
- Convergence
- Cooling Degree Day
- Core Punch
- Coriolis Effect
- Coromell
- Corona
- Corposant
- Crepuscular Rays
- Crystallization
- Cumuliform
- Cumuliform Anvil
- Cumulonimbus
- Cumulonimbus Mammatus
- Cumulus
- Cumulus Congestus
- Cumulus Congestus (or Simply Congestus)
- Cumulus Fractus
- Cumulus Humilis
- Cumulus Mediocris
- Current
- Cut
- Cut-off High
- Cut-off Low
- Cutoff Low
- Cyclic Storm
- Cyclogenesis
- Cyclone
- Cyclonic Circulation (or Cyclonic Rotation)
- Cyclonic Flow
D
- D-value
- Daily Mean
- Dalton's Law
- Data Buoys
- Dawn
- Day
- DBZ
- Debris Cloud
- Deepening
- Degree
- Degree Day
- Delta T
- Dense Fog Advisory
- Density
- Density Altitude
- Depression
- Derecho
- Dew
- Dew Point
- Dew Point (or Dew-point Temperature)
- Diablo Winds
- Differential Motion
- Diffluence
- Diffraction
- Difluence (or Diffluence)
- Directional Shear
- Discontinuity
- Disturbance
- Diurnal
- Divergence
- Dog Days
- Doldrums
- Doppler Radar
- Downburst
- Downdraft
- Downpour
- Downslope Effect
- Downstream
- Drainage Wind
- Drifting Snow
- Drifts
- Drizzle
- Dropsonde
- Drought
- Dry Adiabat
- Dry Bulb Thermometer
- Dry Line
- Dry Microburst
- Dry Punch
- Dry Slot
- Dry-line Bulge
- Dry-line Storm
- Dusk
- Dust
- Dust Bowl
- Dust Devil
- Dust Plume
- Dust Whirl
- Duststorm
- Dynamics
E
- Earthlight (Earthshine)
- Earthquake
- Easterlies
- Easterly Wave
- Echo
- Eclipse
- Ecliptic
- ECMWF
- Ecology
- Eddy
- El NiÑo
- El NiÑo
- Electromagnetic Radiation
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Elevated Convection
- Elevation
- Energy Helicity Index (or EHI)
- Enhanced V
- Enhanced Wording
- Entrance Region
- Environment
- Equator
- Equatorial Trough
- Equilibrium Level (or EL)
- Equinox
- Erosion
- Eta Model
- Evaporation
- Evapotranspiration
- Exit Region
- Exosphere
- Extratropical Cyclone
- Eye
- Eye Wall
F
- F Scale
- Fahrenheit Temperature Scale
- Fair
- Fathom
- Feeder Bands
- Fetch
- Few
- Filling
- Firewhirl
- First Gust
- Flanking Line
- Flash Flood
- Flood
- Flood Plain
- Flood Stage
- Foehn
- Fog
- Fog Bank
- Fogbow
- Forecast
- Forward Flank Downdraft
- Fractus
- Freezing Drizzle
- Freezing Fog
- Freezing Point/Freeze
- Freezing Precipitation
- Freezing Rain
- Fresh Water
- Friction
- Friction Layer
- Front
- Frontal Passage
- Frontogenesis
- Frontolysis
- Frost
- Frozen Precipitation
- Fujita Scale
- Fujita Scale (or F Scale)
- Fujita-pearson Scale
- Funnel Cloud
- Fusion
G
- Gale
- Gale Warning
- Geophysics
- Geosphere
- Geostationary Satellite
- Geostrophic Wind
- Glacier Winds
- Glaze
- Gradient Wind
- Graupel
- Gravitation
- Gravity
- Green Flash
- Greenhouse Effect
- Greenwich Mean Time (Gmt)
- Ground Clutter
- Ground Fog
- Growing Season
- Gulf Stream
- Gully Washer
- Gunge
- Gust
- Gust Front
- Gustnado
- Gustnado (or Gustinado)
H
- Haboob
- Hail
- Halo
- Haze
- Heat
- Heat Balance
- Heat Exhaustion
- Heat Index
- Heat Lightning
- Heat Stroke
- Heat Wave
- Heating Degree Day
- Helicity
- High Clouds
- High Latitudes
- High Pressure System
- High Risk (of Severe Thunderstorms)
- Hoarfrost
- Hodograph
- Hook (or Hook Echo)
- Hook Echo
- Horizon
- Horse Latitudes
- HP Storm Or HP Supercell
- Hudson Bay Low
- Humboldt Current
- Humidity
- Hurricane
- Hurricane Warning
- Hurricane Watch
- Hydrologic Cycle
- Hydrology
- Hydrometeor
- Hydrosphere
- Hygrograph
- Hygrometer
- Hypothermia
I
- Ice
- Ice Crystals
- Ice Fog
- Ice Jam
- Ice Pellets
- Ice Storm
- Icelandic Low
- Icicle
- Icing
- Impulse
- Inches Of Mercury (Hg)
- Indian Summer
- Inflow Bands (or Feeder Bands)
- Inflow Jets
- Inflow Notch
- Inflow Stinger
- Infrared
- Insolation
- Instability
- Instrument Flight Rules (Ifr)
- Instrument Shelter
- Intermountain High
- International Date Line
- Intertropical Convergence Zone (Itcz)
- Inversion
- Ionosphere
- Isallobar
- Isentropic Lift
- Isentropic Surface
- Isobar
- Isodrosotherm
- Isohel
- Isohyet
- Isopleth
- Isotach
- Isotherm
J
K
L
- Lake Effect Snow
- Laminar
- Land Breeze
- Landfall
- Landspout
- Lapse Rate
- Large-scale
- Latent Heat
- Latitude
- Lee/Leeside/Leeward
- Left Front Quadrant (or Left Exit Region)
- Left Mover
- Lenticular Cloud
- Level Of Free Convection (Lfc)
- LEWP
- Lifted Index (Li)
- Lifted Index (or LI)
- Lifting Condensation Level (Lcl)
- Light Waves
- Lightning
- Line Echo Wave Pattern (Lewp)
- Lithometeor
- Lithosphere
- Loaded Gun (Sounding)
- Long Wave Trough
- Longitude
- Longwave Trough
- Low Clouds
- Low Latitudes
- Low Level Jet (Llj)
- Low Pressure System
- Low-level Jet (abbrev. LLJ)
- LP Storm (or LP Supercell)
- LSR
- Lunar Eclipse
M
- Mackerel Sky
- Macroburst
- Macroscale
- Magnetic Poles
- Mammatocumulus
- Mammatus Clouds
- Mare's Tail
- Marginal Visual Flight Rules (Mvfr)
- Maritime Air Mass
- Maximum
- MCC
- MCS
- Mean Sea Level
- Mean Temperature
- Measured Ceiling
- Medium Range
- Melting Level
- Melting Point
- Mercurial Barometer
- Meridional Flow
- Mesocyclone
- Mesohigh
- Mesolow
- Mesolow (or Sub-synoptic Low)
- Mesonet
- Mesoscale
- Mesoscale Convective Complex (Mcc)
- Mesoscale Convective System (Mcs)
- Mesosphere
- Metar
- Meteorology/Meteorologist
- Microbarograph
- Microburst
- Microscale
- Mid-level Cooling
- Middle Clouds
- Middle Latitudes
- Millibar (Mb)
- Minimum
- Mist
- Mixed Layer
- Mixed Precipitation
- Moderate Risk (of Severe Thunderstorms)
- Moist Adiabat
- Moisture
- Moisture Advection
- Moisture Convergence
- Monsoon
- Morning Glory
- Mountain Breeze
- Mountain Wave
- MRF
- Mud Slide
- Muggy
- Multi-cell(ular) Thunderstorm
- Multicell Storm
- Multiple Vortex Tornado
- Multiple-vortex (or Multi-vortex) Tornado
- Mushroom
N
- Nadir
- National Center For Atmospheric Research (Ncar)
- National Centers For Environmental Prediction (Ncep)
- National Climatic Data Center (Ncdc)
- National Hurricane Center (Nhc)
- National Meteorological Center (Nmc)
- National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)
- National Severe Storms Forecast Center (Nssfc)
- National Severe Storms Laboratory (Nssl)
- National Weather Association (Nwa)
- National Weather Service (Nws)
- Nautical Mile
- Nautical Twilight
- NCEP
- Neap Tide
- Negative Vorticity Advection
- Negative-tilt Trough
- Nephelococcygia
- Newhall Winds
- Newton
- NEXRAD
- NGM
- Night
- Nimbostratus
- Nitrogen (N2)
- NMC
- NOAA
- Noctilucent Clouds
- Nocturnal
- Nocturnal Thunderstorms
- Nor'easter
- Normal
- North Pacific High
- Nowcast
- NSSFC
- NSSL
- Numerical Forecasting
- NWP
- NWS
O
- Obscuration
- Observation
- Occluded Front
- Occluded Mesocyclone
- Ocean
- Oceanography
- Omega Block
- Opaque
- Orographic
- Orographic Lift
- Orographic Lifting
- Orphan Anvil
- Outflow
- Outflow Boundary
- Overcast
- Overhang
- Overrunning
- Overshooting Top (or Penetrating Top)
- Oxygen (O2)
- Oxygen(O2)
- Ozone (O3)
- Ozone Layer
P
- Palmer Drought Index
- Palouser
- Parcel
- Parhelion
- Partial Obscuration
- Partly Cloudy
- Pascal
- Pascal's Law
- PDS Watch
- Peak Gust
- Pendant Echo
- Penetrating Top
- Perigee
- Perihelion
- Photometer
- Photosphere
- Pilot Balloon
- Pilot Report
- Plan Position Indicator
- Plow/Plough Wind
- Polar
- Polar Air Mass
- Polar Front
- Polar Jet
- Polar-orbiting Satellite
- Poles/Polar
- Pollutant
- Popcorn Convection
- Positive Area
- Positive CG
- Positive Vorticity Advection
- Positive-tilt Trough
- Potential Temperature
- Pounds Per Square Inch (Psi)
- PPINE
- Pre
- Pre-frontal Squall Line
- Pre-frontal Trough
- Precipitation
- Pressure
- Pressure Altimeter
- Pressure Altitude
- Pressure Change
- Pressure Characteristic
- Pressure Gradient
- Pressure Jump
- Pressure Tendency
- Prevailing Visibility
- Prevailing Wind
- Profiler
- Prognostic Chart
- Pseudo-Cold Front
- Pseudo-Warm Front
- Psychrometer
- Pulse
- Pulse Storm
- PVA
Q
R
- RADAP II
- Radar
- Radarsonde Observation
- Radial Velocity
- Radiation
- Radiation Fog
- Radiational Cooling
- Radiosonde
- Rain
- Rain Foot
- Rain Forest
- Rain Gauge
- Rain Shadow
- Rain-free Base
- Rainbow
- Rainfall
- Range Resolution
- Rawinsonde
- Rear Flank Downdraft (or RFD)
- Reconnaissance (Recco) Code
- Red Watch Or Red Box
- Reflectivity
- Refraction
- Relative Humidity
- Relative Vorticity
- Resolution
- Retrogression
- Retrogression (or Retrograde Motion)
- Return Flow
- Ridge
- Right Entrance Region (or Right Rear Quadrant)
- Right Mover
- Right Rear Quadrant
- Rime
- Rip Current
- Rocketsonde
- Roll Cloud
- Rope (or Rope Funnel)
- Rope Cloud
- Rope Stage
- Rossby Waves
- Rotation
- Rotor Cloud
- RUC
- Runway Visual Range (Rvr)
S
- Saffir
- Saffir-simpson Damage-potential Scale
- Salinity
- Salt Water
- Sand
- Sandstorm
- Santa Ana Winds
- Sargasso Sea
- Satellite
- Satellite Images
- Saturate
- Saturation Point
- Scattered
- Scattering
- Scud
- Scud (or Fractus)
- Sea Breeze
- Sea Breeze Front
- Sea Fog
- Sea Ice
- Sea Level
- Sea Level Pressure
- Sea Mile
- Sea Spray
- Sea Surface Temperature (Sst)
- Season
- SELS
- Semi
- Semi-permanent Pressure Systems
- Severe Thunderstorm
- Severe Weather
- Shear
- Shear Line
- Shelf Cloud
- Short Wave
- Short-Fuse Warning
- Shortwave (or Shortwave Trough)
- Showalter Stability Index
- Shower
- Siberian Express
- Siberian High
- Sidereal Time
- Skew T
- Skew T-log P Diagram
- Sky
- Sky Cover
- Sleet
- Slight Risk (of Severe Thunderstorms)
- Slush
- Small Craft Advisory
- Smoke
- Snow
- Snow Advisory
- Snow Banner
- Snow Blindness
- Snow Cover
- Snow Creep
- Snow Crust
- Snow Depth
- Snow Devil
- Snow Eater
- Snow Flurry/Flurries
- Snow Garland
- Snow Grains
- Snow Level
- Snow Line
- Snow Pellets
- Snow Roller
- Snow Shower
- Snow Squall
- Snowburn
- Snowfall
- Snowflakes
- Snowpack
- Solar Day
- Solar Eclipse
- Solstice
- Sounding
- Southern Oscillation
- SPC
- Specific Humidity
- Speed Shear
- Spin-up
- Splitting Storm
- Spring
- Spring Tide
- Squall
- Squall Line
- St. Elmo's Fire
- Stable/Stability
- Staccato Lightning
- Stagnation Area
- Standard Atmosphere
- Standard Surface Pressure
- Standing Cloud
- Standing Wave
- Station Elevation
- Station Pressure
- Stationary Front
- Steam Fog
- Steering Winds (or Steering Currents)
- Storm
- Storm Prediction Center (Spc)
- Storm Tracks
- Storm Winds
- Storm-relative
- Storm-scale
- Straight
- Straight-line Winds
- Stratiform
- Stratocumulus
- Stratopause
- Stratosphere
- Stratus
- Stratus Fractus
- Striations
- Sub-synoptic Low
- Sublimation
- Subpolar
- Subrefraction
- Subsidence
- Subtropical
- Subtropical Air
- Subtropical Jet
- Suction Vortex (sometimes Suction Spot)
- Summation Layer Amount
- Summer
- Sun Dog
- Sun Pillar
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- Supercell
- Supercooling
- Superrefraction
- Surface Boundary Layer
- Surface-based Convection
- Surge
- SWEAT Index
- Swell
- SWODY1, SWODY2 (sometimes Pronounced Swoe-dee)
- Synoptic Chart
- Synoptic Scale
- Synoptic Scale (or Large Scale)
- Syzygy
T
- T Rolls
- Tail Cloud
- Tail-end Charlie
- Teleconnections
- Temperate Climate
- Temperature
- Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (Tdwr)
- Terrestrial Radiation
- Texas Norther
- Thaw
- The Cap Is An Important Ingredient In Most Severe Thunderstorm Episodes, As It Serves To Separate Warm, Moist Air Below And Cool
- Theodolite
- Thermal Low
- Thermocline
- Thermodynamic Chart (or Thermodynamic Diagram)
- Thermodynamics
- Thermograph
- Thermohaline
- Thermometer
- Thermosphere
- Theta-e (or Equivalent Potential Temperature)
- Theta-e Ridge
- Thickness
- Thunder
- Thunder Snow
- Thunderstorm
- Tide
- Tilt
- Tilt Sequence
- Tilted Storm Or Tilted Updraft
- Tiros
- Tornado
- Tornado Alley
- Tornado Family
- Total-Totals Index
- Tower
- Towering Cumulus
- Trace
- Trade Winds
- Trajectory
- Translucent
- Transmissometer
- Transparent
- Transpiration
- Transverse Bands
- Transverse Rolls
- Triple Point
- Tropic Of Cancer
- Tropic Of Capricorn
- Tropical Air Mass
- Tropical Cyclone
- Tropical Depression
- Tropical Disturbance
- Tropical Prediction Center (Tpc)
- Tropical Storm
- Tropical Wave
- Tropics/Tropical
- Tropopause
- Troposphere
- Trough
- Tsunami
- Tule Fog
- Turbulence
- Turkey Tower
- TVS
- Twilight
- Twister
- Typhoon
U
- Ucar
- UKMET
- Ultraviolet
- Undercast
- United States Weather Bureau
- Universal Time Coordinate
- University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (Ucar)
- Unstable/ Instability
- Updraft
- Updraft Base
- Upper Air/Upper Level
- Upper Level System
- Upslope Effect
- Upslope Flow
- Upslope Fog
- Upstream
- Upwelling
- Upwind
- Usually, In Operational Meteorology, References To Barotropic Systems Refer To Equivalent Barotropic Systems
- UVM (or UVV)
V
- V Notch
- VAD
- Valley Breeze
- Vapor Pressure
- Vapor Trail
- Variable Ceiling
- Vault
- Veering
- Veering Winds
- Vernal Equinox
- Vertical Temperature Profile
- Vertical Visibility
- Vertical Wind Profile
- Vertically-stacked System
- VIL
- VIP
- Virga
- Visibility
- Visible Light
- Visual Flight Rules (Vfr)
- Volume Scan
- Vort Max
- Vortex
- Vorticity
- Vorticity Maximum
- VWP
W
- Walker Circulation
- Wall Cloud
- Warm
- Warm Advection
- Warm Front
- Warm High
- Warm Low
- Warning
- Wasatch Winds
- Watch
- Watch Box (or Box)
- Water
- Water Cycle
- Water Vapor (H2o)
- Waterspout
- Wave Cyclone
- Wave Length
- Wave(s)
- Weather
- Weather Surveillance Radar (Wsr
- Weather Surveillance Radar (Wsr-88d)
- Weather Vane
- Weathering
- Wedge
- Wedge (or Wedge Tornado)
- Wedges Often Appear With Violent Tornadoes (F4 Or F5 On The Fujita Scale), But Many Documented Wedges Have Been Rated Lower. And
- WER
- West Virginia High
- Westerlies
- Wet Bulb Depression
- Wet Bulb Thermometer
- Wet Microburst
- Whirlwind
- Whiteout
- Wind
- Wind Chill Index
- Wind Direction
- Wind Shear
- Wind Shift
- Wind Speed
- Wind Vane
- Wind Wave
- Windward
- Winter
- Winter Storm
- World Meteorological Organization (Wmo)
- Wrapping Gust Front
- WSR-57, WSR-74
- WSR-88D
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