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fog/foggy

Fog is water droplets suspended in the air at the Earth's surface. Fog is often hazardous when the visibility is reduced to a ¼ mile or less.(source #4)

windy

20 to 30 mph winds. (source #4)

rain/raining

Precipitation that falls to earth in drops more than 0.5 mm in diameter. (source #4)

snow/snowing

Precipitation in the form of ice crystals. It has a hexagonal form and often agglomerated (grouped/bunched together) into snowflakes. It is formed directly from the freezing [deposition] of the water vapor in the air. (source #4)

isolated

A National Weather Service convective precipitation descriptor for a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch). Isolated is used interchangeably with few. (source #4)

overcast

An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, when the sky is completely covered by an obscuring phenomenon. This is applied only when obscuring phenomenon aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomenon are surface-based, such as fog. (source #4)

hazy

An aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors. (source #4)

airborne

transported or carried by the air. (source #5)

cyclone

A large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. (source #4)

tropical depression

A tropical cyclone in which the maximum 1-minute sustained surface wind is 33 knots (38 mph) or less. (source #4)

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