What is Hail?

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...