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What is Microburst?

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated with thunderstorms.

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Glossary

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...