What is Ball Lightning?

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety of colors, from blue to orange to yellow, and is sometimes accompanied by a hissing sound and an acrid odor.

Glossary

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

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

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

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

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

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