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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A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...
A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...