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.
Glossary
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...
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