#i might ramble about cold fronts later if im bored ktjwkdje

[forbidden-wood]

psst. can you give me some cool weather facts

I love you /p

Let's talk about the weather phenomenon La Niña and El Niño, which are counterparts to each other of oceanic oscillation! La Niña represents the cooling period of the ocean while El Niño represents the warming period. For 2022, we're currently experiencing the cooling period which causes temperatures to rise in the south and cool in the north. Fun fact, during the La Niña period, there's a more active hurricane season due to decreased wind shear in the Atlantic!

Another fact that I think is cool is how the storm naming system in the US works. There's a list of names for each hurricane basin (Atlantic and Pacific) as well as a list of names for winter storms. These names are rotated with different lists every year, so there's repeat names every couple of years. A name is retired if the storm causes catastrophic damage (Examples are Katrina and Sandy). And if the weather service runs out of names? Well, they used to just use the Greek alphabet but that got too confusing so now there's just a list of back up names every year fjshdishdh

And a weather safety tip to end things off! A tornado watch indicates that weather conditions are right for a tornado to form while a tornado warning means that a confirmed tornado has touched down and has been reported or there is radar indicated activity of a tornado.