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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Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...
The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.