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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Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...
A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...