What is Hail?

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

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

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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