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 sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...