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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The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.