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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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Glossary

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....