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 storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...