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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Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...
Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.