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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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Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

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

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...