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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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 weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....
The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.