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To have extreme weather you need to have a lot of available energy to propell the weather itself. … I would say that Venus is a pretty good example of extreme weather: strong winds (400 km/h), snow (not based on water ice), and the greenhouse effect present on the planet is a good way to harvest and …

I also think that, due to the very low mass involved in the atmosphere, its capability of storing energy would be low, and therefore the weather phenomena resulting from this stored energy wouldn't be …

Blood is water based solution. As all water based solutions, they don't freeze particularly well, meaning that some sort of separation/precipitation is expected to happen, leaving ice crystals with so …

What you are asking it's plausible enough, just based on personal experience. I live not far from the border with Belgium: I am a few minutes cycling away from "abroad". Last week while here it was c …

In Iceland it is well known that volcanoes can melt the ice cap and generate massive flooding. A jökulhlaup (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈjœːkʏl̥øip]) (literally 'glacier run') is a type of glacial …

where volcanoes would be? Volcanoes are usually placed at the borders of tectonic plates. You can have rift volcanoes where two plates diverges (the African Rift Valley is an example), or subside …

The hurricane trives by using the energy taken from the ocean to the atmosphere by the evaporated water. Thus it doesn't really cool down the ocean, since the water is already evaporated. It "simpl …

Clouds form from sea level up to the limit of the troposphere (around 9000 meters on Earth). Fog is "just" a cloud forming close to the ground, so this pretty much answer your question: up to the lim …

Put more energy in the atmosphere: storms are more frequent in summer because there is more solar energy available, and that solar energy is able to lift icy particles and droplets higher in the atmos …

Lastly, a formative tropical cyclone needs a preexisting system of disturbed weather. Tropical cyclones will not form spontaneously. …

One possible condition to have bubble rain would be a large differential pressure in one gas across the height of the atmosphere. Let's say, for the sake of this question, that CO2 has a pressure of …

McMurdo base in the Antarctica hosts between 1250 and 250 people. An annual sealift by cargo ships as part of Operation Deep Freeze delivers 8 million U.S. gallons (6.6 million imperial gallons/42 …

Ice caps form whenever the yearly balance between solid water accumulation and water melting is shifted toward accumulation. It can happen at the poles but also on high enough mountains, where glacier …

The problem is, again, that if you want to get insulation from cold you don't want to just stick stuff to your body, but you want something that helps you building an insulating layer. How do you make …

Why this sudden upsurge in activity occurred is not fully known, but it appears that Uranus's extreme axial tilt results in extreme seasonal variations in its weather. …