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

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...