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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A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.