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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 fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

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