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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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The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...