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.

Glossary

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

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

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

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

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