What is Precipitation?
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
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An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.
A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, characterized by a central eye, strong winds, and...
Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.