List of meteorological phenomena

A meteorological phenomenon is a weather event that can be explained by the principles of meteorology. Such events include:

• Air mass
• Anticyclone
• Arctic cyclone
• Clouds
• Crow Instability
• Derecho
• Diamond dust
• Drought
• Dust devil
• Dust storm
• Extratropical cyclone
• Foehn wind
• Hail
• Halo
• Hurricane
• Ice pellets
• Indian summer
• Lake effect snow
• Light pillar
• Lightning
• Mesocyclone
• Morning glory cloud
• Novaya Zemlya Effect
• Rain
• Rain and snow mixed
• Rainbow
• Raining animals
• Sleet; see Ice pellets and Rain and snow mixed
• Snow
• Squall
• Subtropical cyclone
• Sun dog
• Sun shower
• Supercell
• Temperature inversion
• Thunder
• Thundersnow
• Thunderstorm
• Tornado
• Tropical storm
• Weather front
• Wind

See also

• Severe weather