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Fujiwhara effect

Context When two hurricanes (or cyclones, depending on where you live), spinning in the same direction, are brought close together, ...

How does a cyclone affect the monsoon’s onset?

Context The impact of global warming on the monsoons are manifest in the onset, withdrawal, its seasonal total rainfall, and its extremes ...

Japanese archipelago

Context The Japanese archipelago, one of the world’s prominent island groups that lies just off the coast of Eurasia, now ...

Main Central Thrust, Himalayan Thrust and Frontal Thrust

Main Central Thrust, Himalayan Thrust and Frontal Thrust Context Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law. When a system expels or ...

What is a bomb cyclone?

Context The storm pummelling large swaths of the United States and Canada is what forecasters call a “bomb cyclone.” What is a ...

Mauna Loa and Mount Semeru Volcanoes

Context Two major volcanoes Mauna Loa in Hawaii and Mount Semeru in Indonesia — erupted in a span of a ...

What is lake-effect snow?

What is lake-effect snow? Context It’s hard for most people to imagine more than 4 feet of snow in one ...

Jaldoot App

Context With the rapidly declining water table threatening to push many regions into drought, the Union government on has launched ...

The ‘stubborn abnormal’ La Nina conditions

Context In what may be termed as an uncommon ocean phenomenon, the prevailing La Ninã conditions over the equatorial Pacific Ocean have entered ...

Derecho storm

Context States of Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois in the US were hit by a storm system called a derecho. About ...