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What is La Niña?

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global weather patterns such as reduced rainfall in some areas and increased rainfall in others.

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Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

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

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

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

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...