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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Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...