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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

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

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

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.