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

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

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

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...