Graupel is soft, pelletlike precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets freeze onto falling snowflakes, creating ...

Snow ratio describes how much snow falls compared to its water content, helping forecasters gauge whether a storm will bring ...

A landslide is the sudden downhill movement of rock, soil, and debris, often triggered when heavy rain, especially from ...

The wedge is a Southeast U.S. weather pattern where cold air becomes trapped against the Appalachians, creating chilly, cloudy, and often stubborn conditions known as cold air damming.

We all know what the air temperature is, and the dewpoint is the temperature to which the air must be cooled for saturation to occur. The mathematical difference between those two numbers is called ...

Ever notice how the base of a cloud is usually flat? There’s a reason for that. An invisible layer of the atmosphere on which clouds appear to “sit” is called the Lifting Condensation Level. As a ...

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