Rain
gouttes de pluie
Raindrops
une congère
snowbank/snowdrift
Vent très fort
Severe gale
Is produced by solid particles in suspension in the atmosphere, visibility is the same for mist
Haze
Nuages fragmentés
Broken cloud
Very small amount of water drops that appear to float with the air currents while falling in an irregular path
Drizzle
bourrasque de neige
snow flurries
courant d'air descendant
a down draught/down draft
Broullard se dissipe
Fog lifts/ Clears away
What is a cloud layer?
Occurs when a cold winter period is about to finish because of an approaching warm front.
freezing Rain
plaques de verglas
icy patches
Tail wind
are expressed in terms of visibility, distance from clouds, and ceiling meeting or exceeding the minimums specified by VFR.
Visual meteorological conditions
VMC
une concentration , amoncellement de nuages
A build up
Flaques d'eau
standing water/puddles
Generally transparent , globular, solid grains of ice which have formed from the freezing of raindrops or the freezing of largely melted snowflakes when falling through a below freezing layer of air near the earth's surface
Sleet
a change in wind speed and/or direction over a short distance. It can occur either horizontally or vertically and is most often associated with strong temperature inversions or density gradients , can occur at high or low altitude.
Wind shear
A term used to describe the base of the lowest cloud layer in the sky and it's one piece of information that both pilots and meteorologists use when describing the current weather conditions and a vital tool for both fields
Ceiling
Dans les nuages par intermittence
To fly in and out of the cloud
The temperature at which the air is saturated with the water vapor it contains and condensation begins
Dew Point
A thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing,
Frost
A forecast of specific atmospheric conditions in terms of wind and temperature at certain altitudes, typically measured in feet above mean sea level. The forecast is specifically used for aviation purposes.
Winds Aloft
RVR
Runway Visual Range
an air mass that contains up and down drafts in convective loops and that moves and reacts as a single entity, functioning as the smallest unit of a storm-producing system
Storm Cells