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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Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...