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 heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...
A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...