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 jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
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...
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...
The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

