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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Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...
A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...