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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 middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

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

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.