What is Hail?

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

Glossary

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

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

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

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

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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