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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Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.