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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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Glossary

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.