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 term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.