When dry air (meaning no clouds) changes pressure, it also changes temperature. If you have ever filled a bicycle tire, you may have noticed the more air you pump into the tire, the warmer the valve ...

Have you ever been hiking and noticed that the air gets cooler as you ascend? Or mountain bike down a mountain and realize the temperature is much warmer at the bottom? This is adiabatic cooling. The ...

Last week we talked about different types of precipitation, and one of the best tools in our arsenal for working to determine precipitation type is the skew-T log-P diagram, or more commonly just ...