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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The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.