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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

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

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 periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

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

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

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

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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