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What is Katabatic Wind?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

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

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

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.