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Clouds, storms and seasons: what the atmosphere is doing and why, from everyday forecasts to hurricane mechanics.

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Everyone checks the forecast; this shelf explains where it comes from. Weather is the atmosphere doing physics in public, and once you can read the signs, a cloud type or a pressure drop stops being trivia and starts being information.

The guides cover the sky's whole repertoire: cloud types from cumulus to the rare lenticular saucers, storms from garden-variety thunderheads to hurricanes and tornadoes, and the seasonal machinery of monsoons, fronts and jet streams. The instrument articles explain how anemometers, barometers and rain gauges actually measure what they measure, and the climate entries keep the long view honest.

Browse the featured guides above for the storm references, or the full list for a specific cloud, instrument or phenomenon. If you arrived mid-storm, the safety lines in each article follow the published guidance of weather authorities, stated plainly.

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Layers of the atmosphere
Different types of storms
Types of clouds

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Sleet and Hail - What is the Difference?

Hail, being larger in size than sleet or ice pellets, is formed by the accumulation of layers of freezing water in the clouds. Sleet, however, is formed due to temperature difference in the atmosphere. Know more about these two forms of precipitation through this ScienceStruck article which gives a comparison between sleet and hail.

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Illuminating Facts About Mammatus Clouds That You Never Knew

Many tend to believe that mammatus clouds or the beautiful pouch-like patterns occurring in the sky give rise to tornadoes. However, this is not true. ScienceStruck provides some information and facts about this distinct cloud formation.

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