What is Lightning?
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
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A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly 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.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
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 middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...
The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...