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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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Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

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

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

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