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What is Confluence?

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

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A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...