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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 weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

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

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.