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 process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.
A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...