What is Hail?
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
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A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.
Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...