Weather Glossary
Every hobby has its jargon, and weather has more than most. This glossary explains 558+ terms in plain English, from CAPE and hook echoes to eyewall replacement cycles, written and maintained by the Xtreme Weather Discord (XWD) community. They are the same answers our bot Snowball gives when someone asks in the server, so if a definition here helps you, the people who wrote it are one click away.
NWS Office Codes
164 terms
SPC Outlooks & Risk Categories
15 terms
Tornado & Severe Thunderstorm Alerts
18 terms
NWS Alert & Product Codes
18 terms
Flooding & Hydrology
15 terms
Winter Weather
30 terms
Tropical Weather & Hurricanes
32 terms
Fire Weather, Heat & Wind
19 terms
Radar Fundamentals
22 terms
Radar Signatures & Dual-Pol
16 terms
Instability & CAPE
29 terms
Wind Shear & Composite Indices
12 terms
Boundaries & Local Winds
15 terms
Storm Structure
37 terms
Storm Types & Convective Modes
23 terms
Tornadoes, Hail & the EF Scale
23 terms
Fronts & Synoptic Patterns
28 terms
Observations, Spotting & Reports
15 terms
Forecast Models & Climate Patterns
17 terms
Cloud Types
10 terms
Hear these terms used live
Reading definitions is one thing. Watching Coverage Experts apply them on live radar is how they stick. Join the Xtreme Weather Discord (XWD) and ask Snowball about any term on this page, these are the same answers the bot gives in the server.
