Vocabulary
The pressure that a column of air exerts on the area below it.
What is air Pressure?
Forms when water changes from gas to liquid.
What are clouds?
How does this type of front form?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/146OsosLvo3Q6TtVkUnECDvvBImidXpUl/view?usp=sharing
Cold air moves toward warmer air.
What would be the temperature?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vR8Yb1nuXdPV5RgoI5Fb8rIlq8CPIVEX/view?usp=sharing
81°F
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Water in a liquid or solid form that falls from the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
Type of precipitation that reaches Earth’s surface as large pellets of ice.
What is hail?
Identify the type of weather front that is shown on the weather map below. Predict the type of weather for the areas along the front?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13oXlrswJWeGk7VUgUSh8PE83ASqw9EGo/view?usp=sharing
This weather map is indicating that there is a cold front moving through. This cold weather mixed with the high temperatures shown would suggest that bad weather (severe storms) would most likely occur in areas along the front.
What would be the dew point?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vR8Yb1nuXdPV5RgoI5Fb8rIlq8CPIVEX/view?usp=sharing
55 °F
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
The natural process in which water constantly moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
The 6 weather variables.
What are precipitation, clouds, temperature, air pressure, humidity, and wind speed.
Forms when swirling winds that spiral downward from a thunderstorm's base creating a funnel cloud.
What is a tornado?
When less dense warmer air moves toward colder air.
What is a warm front?
The atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
What is weather?
This report describes a set of measurements made on Earth’s surface.
What is a surface report?
The sinking-air situation that usually brings fair weather conditions.
What is a high-pressure system?
Centre Alabama's avg temperature today 54°F. If a warm front is coming from Springfield Missouri with Sun and 70°F weather traveling at 10 mph and Alabama is 609 miles away, what do you predict the weather will be like on Saturday morning?
60s and Sunny with a low chance of rain.
Type of front represented by alternating red half circles and blue triangles.
What is a stationary front?
A report that describes wind, temperature, and humidity above Earth’s surface.
What is an upper-air report?
This air mass brings cold temperatures during winter.
What is a continental polar air mass?
An air mass that passes over land vs. an air mass that passes over water.
What is a continental and maritime air mass?
What would you predict the weather to be like in Texas during the upcoming days?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wigyRDXYq18upFgsra7HVi7F0gKXQm7n/view?usp=sharing
Cold in the low 50s
Measures the speed at which precipitation travels.
What is the Doppler radar?
This air mass forms over the western Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific Ocean. These moist air masses bring hot, humid air to the southeastern United States during summer.
What are maritime tropical air masses?