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 thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.
Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...
A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...
Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...