Thunderstorm
Forms brillant flash of light in lightening bolt
What is return stroke?
Indicates frontal cyclone has reached full strength
What is the formation of an occluded front?
Instrument that uses flexible, airtight metal box
What is an aneroid barometer?
brings hot, dry weather
What is continental, tropical air mass
What is the mesopause?
Downward stream of electrons that cause single lightening bolt to make a second strike
What is a dart leader?
Tropical low-pressure system that system that does not have rotating winds
What is a tropical disturbance?
Measures high altitude weather
What is saturated?
What is nitrogen?
Most intense type of downburst
What is a microburst?
Scale used to rank hurricane strength
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Predicted weather in the future
What is weather forecast?
Colorful displays from solar wind particles that react with molecules in atmosphere
What is the Auroras?
Thunderstorm stage marked by arrival of participation
What is the mature stage?
Elevated water levels caused by hurricane winds
Measures wind direction
What is a weather vane?
Liquid precipitation .2mm to .5mm
What is drizzle?
What is cosmic rays?
Single updraft system in thunderstorm
What is a cell?
Most destructive force of hurricane
What is wind?
Measures distance of ground to bottom of cloud
What is a ceilometer?
Frozen tiny balls of ice
What is sleet?
Point where solar wind pushes on Earth's magnetic field
What is the magnetopause?