What is Lightning?
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
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A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.