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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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Glossary

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

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.