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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In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
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 storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...
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.