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.
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The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.
A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.