Dark blue cloudy sky

What is Hail?

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

Schedule a Demo Today

A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!

Contact Us

Glossary

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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 condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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

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

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