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 cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...
A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...
The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...