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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The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...