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What is Stratus?

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

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A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

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A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....