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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A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

