cumulonimbus clouds
71cumulus — noun a) A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds. Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google.… …
72cold front — the boundary between a warm and a cold air mass where the cold mass is undercutting the warm, causing the latter to rise. The rate of rise tends to be rapid causing rapid cooling and condensation which leads to the formation of tall… …
73air report special — Special observations made by aircraft operating on international air routes whenever severe turbulence or severe icing is encountered; moderate turbulence, hail, or cumulonimbus clouds are encountered during transonic or supersonic flight; or… …
74haboob — Severe dust storms occurring in Sudan and associated with cumulonimbus clouds in the summer season …
75penetration — i. That portion of a published high altitude instrument approach procedure that prescribes a descent path from the fix on which the procedure is based to a fix or an altitude from which an approach to the airport is made. ii. A flight into… …
76showers — Precipitation from convective (cumulus and cumulonimbus) clouds. The showers are characterized by their sudden onset, rapid variation in intensity, and usually a rapid change in the appearance of the sky …
77squall — A sudden and rapid increase in wind speed by at least two units on Beaufort’s scale, which lasts for at least one minute. It is normally associated with cumulonimbus clouds. A squall is indicated by the symbol on weather charts …
78static — i. Still, at rest, not moving, as in static pressure, static load, etc. ii. Radio or other communication interference mainly the result of the discharge of electricity and appearing as background noise. It consists of amplitude oriented spurious… …
79hail — hail1 noun 1》 pellets of frozen rain falling in showers from cumulonimbus clouds. 2》 a large number of things hurled forcefully through the air: a hail of bullets. verb (it hails, it is hailing, etc.) hail falls. Origin OE hagol, hægl (n.),… …
80hail — Ⅰ. hail [1] ► NOUN 1) pellets of frozen rain falling in showers from cumulonimbus clouds. 2) a large number of things hurled forcefully through the air. ► VERB (it hails, it is hailing, etc.) ▪ hail falls …
