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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The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...
The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.