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 cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.