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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

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

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...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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

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

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...