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What is Ball Lightning?

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety of colors, from blue to orange to yellow, and is sometimes accompanied by a hissing sound and an acrid odor.

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The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

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

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....