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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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Glossary

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

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

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

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

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.