What is Hail?

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

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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

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

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

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

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...