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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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Glossary

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....