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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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A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

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

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...