What is Ceiling?
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
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Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...
A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...