The sun, however, heats the Earth’s surface unevenly, which creates different areas of low and high atmospheric pressure. When a high interacts with a low, wind occurs as air moves from the high ...

In the northern Sierra Nevada, snow will fall in feet — not inches. And in the Northern California Coastal Range, a general 5 to 10 inches of rain is expected to fall.

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This phenomenon was observed over three days in December 2022 during NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission. As a result of the lack of solar wind, the pressure decrease ...