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 narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...
The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...