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What is Downburst?

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused by a tornado.

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Glossary

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

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

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

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