What is Hail?

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

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

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

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