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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

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