What is Hail?

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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

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

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.