What is Hail?

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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

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

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

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

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

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