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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The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.
A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
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 cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

