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What is Ball Lightning?

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety of colors, from blue to orange to yellow, and is sometimes accompanied by a hissing sound and an acrid odor.

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Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...