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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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An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

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

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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

A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, characterized by a central eye, strong winds, and...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...