Time Is EverythingWhen it comes to distinguishing between weather and climate, weather generally covers short and specific ...

Temperature inversions occur when air temperature increases with altitude, creating atmospheric stability that inhibits vertical mixing and deviates from the standard cooling lapse rate. Pilots should ...

Some feel the term "atmospheric river" is now being overused or even misused. So what is an atmospheric river?

What you have read is correct. In fact, readings of 4,000 degrees exist in portions of the upper atmosphere, in the ionosphere — a layer extending from about 30 to 600 miles above the Earth’s surface.