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 names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

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

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

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

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