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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

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...