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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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Glossary

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...