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What is Atmospheric River?

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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Glossary

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

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

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...