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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A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...
The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.