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Weather Words: Mesovortices

Mesovortices are small, intense areas of rotation that can spin inside or around the eye of a powerful hurricane, creating ...
A landslide is the sudden downhill movement of rock, soil, and debris, often triggered when heavy rain, especially from ...
A supercell is a long-lived thunderstorm with a rotating updraft that can produce extreme weather like large hail, damaging ...
A typhoon is the same type of storm as a hurricane, but it forms in a different part of the world. Typhoons develop over the ...
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Weather Words: Atmospheric River

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands of moisture that transport huge amounts of water vapor through the sky, often ...
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Weather Words: 'Stadium Effect'

The stadium effect forms due to the hurricane's intense rotational dynamics and powerful updrafts within the eyewall. As air spirals inward toward the hurricane's center, it encounters the eye's ...
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