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 prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...