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

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

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

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...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.