Dark blue cloudy sky

What is Precipitation?

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail.

Schedule a Demo Today

A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!

Contact Us

Glossary

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

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

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A cold core low is a low-pressure system where the coldest temperatures are found near the center. These systems are often...