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 expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...
An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...