There are over fourteen million thunderstorms worldwide every year. Most thunderstorms are short-lived cells developed over land during daytime heating from the sun. Thunderstorm cells are developed...
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Precipitation is defined as any of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground. I was once asked at the weather office "What is...
Every hour a weather observer or a ASOS weather system sends out an observation with the current state of the sky. Sky condition reports can help determine the weather over the next several days. For...
To understand frontal systems and the atmospheric dynamics, refer to the article on air masses and their source regions. Fronts are the separation between air masses and the leading edge of an air...
Warm Fronts A front in which a warmer air mass is advancing and replacing a retreating colder air mass is a warm front.A horizontal temperature discontinuity exists across the frontal surface,...
All atmospheric synoptic scale systems either thrive or die with the abundance or lack of divergence aloft. You can judge the intensity of of a system by how far it extends into the upper levels and...