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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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Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.