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

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

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

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...