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 drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...