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What is Cumulonimbus?

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe weather like hail or tornadoes.

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Glossary

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

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.

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

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...