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 polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...