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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