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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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Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

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

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

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

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

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