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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Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...
Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...
A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...