Word of the Day: filament
The word filament has appeared in 11 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 10 in “What is an atmospheric river?” by Raymond Zhong:
Atmospheric river storms get their name from their long, narrow shape and the prodigious amount of water they carry.
They form when winds over the Pacific draw a filament of moisture from the band of warm, moist air over the tropics and channel it toward the West Coast. When this ribbon of moisture hits the Sierra Nevada and other mountains, it is forced upward, cooling it and turning its water into immense quantities of rain and snow.
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