What is Saturation?

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

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

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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