What is Hail?
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
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Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...