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What is El Niño?

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global weather patterns, including increased rainfall in some regions and drought in others.

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A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...