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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 distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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

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

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

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

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

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...