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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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In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

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

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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