What is Confluence?
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
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Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
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The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...
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The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...