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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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Glossary

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...