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 drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...