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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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The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

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

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...