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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 sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

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

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 scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

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

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...