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We are increasingly used to hearing in the media about various meteorological and climatological phenomena that impact our daily lives: high-impact named storms, heatwaves, droughts, explosive cyclogenesis… One of them, which can sometimes be confusing, is the cut-off low (dana). But what exactly is it? How is it different from a storm? What consequences can it bring? Let’s break it down.

by Óscar Hernández, physicist and meteorologist in MeteoSim

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