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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

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...