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 mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...