What is Field Capacity?
Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and around 60% in dense clay. In other words, it is the amount of water the soil can retain.
Glossary
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...
Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...
Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
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