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phenomenon

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The reason this is happening more often is that these weather systems have traditionally been a winter phenomenon, arriving between December and March in northern India and the Himalayas.

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The southern half of the Golden State still has not bounced back from the last year of below-average rainfall, and the reemergence of the ocean phenomenon could mean more drought, with another drier-than-average winter.

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To reduce those error rates, the MIT team decided to take advantage of a phenomenon they had observed in a 2023 study.

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They observed that Y1R neurons did not simply react to quick bursts of pain; instead, they kept firing steadily during prolonged pain, a phenomenon known as “tonic activity.”

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The weather phenomenon known as La Nina has returned, a US agency announced Thursday -- although it is expected to remain weak, limiting its ability to cool the planet and supercharge Atlantic hurricane activity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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