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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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...