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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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Glossary

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

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

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...