What is Confluence?

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

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The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

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

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