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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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A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

The formation of fog when warm and moist air passes over a cool or cold surface or, conversely, when cold air passes over...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

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