What is Hail?

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

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...

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

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...