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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A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.
Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...
The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.