What is Hail?

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

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

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

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.