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

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

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

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

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

The scientific study of climate, focusing on the analysis of long-term weather patterns and trends over time.