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What is Cardinal Winds?

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...