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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Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.