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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The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...