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 drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A cold core low is a low-pressure system where the coldest temperatures are found near the center. These systems are often...
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...