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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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Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

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

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

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

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

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...