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

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

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

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

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

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

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

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.