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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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A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...