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

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

How cold is extremely cold is probably a common argument during the winter, but did you know it has an actual definition?

The wind field of a hurricane is the area around the storm where damaging winds occur, defining how far its power and impacts extend from the center.

Have you ever visited the beach only to be greeted by a thick, foamlike substance washing ashore? That's seafoam. Seafoam is a frothy layer of bubbles that forms on the ocean’s surface when dissolved ...

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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