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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The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
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...
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...