What is Precipitation?
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
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Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...
Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...