Water's Wake
When the water table can hold no water and overflows onto land.
What is a flood?
Positive and negative electrical charges build up and discharge when the thunderhead can no longer contain them.
What is lightning?
If it is cold enough to freeze water this will always precipitate.
What is snow?
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
How a house by the beach can stay safe during a hurricane.
What are stilts?
A shockwave from the air that was heated so quickly by lighting.
What is thunder?
The worst kind of snowstorms.
What is a blizzard?
This is when the air mass over the land is very dry with no precipitation, causing the available water to evaporate, but not rain back down.
What is a drought?
The name of the dome of water below a hurricane.
What is storm surge?
Tornados LOVE this region of the USA.
What is the Great Plains? / Tornado ally.
This can damage the land with blunt force.
What is hail?
This is when cold air masses pick up lots of water vapor from the lake, but when the jet stream blows them to land, they cool and freeze and become snowstorms.
What is the lake effect?
This breaking can also cause a flood.
What are dams?
These form when lots of warm air holding lots of moisture is forced upward along a cold front.
What are thunderstorms?
Thunderstorms may be known for their lightning, but they also can produce this.
What is hail?
Storms blow winds at various strengths, because of this, meteorologists use this.
What is approximate averages?
When a tornado forms on water, it is called this.
What is a water spout?
Tornado wind speed can reach up to this (In kilometers per hour).
What is 400/500 k/h
The regions that are effected the most by the Lake Effect.
What are east of the Great Lakes?
If droughts last long enough, this will take place.
What is desertification?