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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A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...