What is Lightning?
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
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The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
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...
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.