What is Cumulonimbus?

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe weather like hail or tornadoes.

Glossary

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

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

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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