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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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 prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.