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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The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.