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 decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
The scientific study of climate, focusing on the analysis of long-term weather patterns and trends over time.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...