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 sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.
A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....