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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A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...