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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Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....
A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.