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.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...