Any storm that has thunder and lightning is called what?
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
When the air and the ground temperature are both warm, what type of precipitation will fall?
What is rain?
200
What type of storm involves high winds, low temperatures, and heavy snowfall?
What is a blizzard?
200
A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
200
The average or typical weather in a particular area over a period of time.
What is climate?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
What kind of precipitation begins to fall as rain, but freezes on the way down and ends up falling as an icy, slushy mix?
What is sleet?
300
What type of storm forms over water and brings strong winds, heavy rainfall, high tides, and flooding to the coast?
What is a hurricane?
300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice crystals
.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Where two types of air bump together or meet.
What is a front?
300
A tool used to measure wind speed and direction.
What is an anemometer?
300
What type of precipitation falls when it is below 32 degrees F?
What is snow?
400
What is a storm with strong winds, thunderstorms, and a funnel shaped center called?
What is a tornado?
400
Clouds that have growing, billowing tops and bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
On a weather map, which color represents a warm front?
What is the red?
400
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
What type of precipitation begins to fall, but is pushed back into the clouds by strong winds and continues to get larger and larger until it finally falls to the ground as large balls of ice?
What is hail?
500
What is one thing that thunderstorms, blizzards, tornadoes, and hurricanes all bring?
What is strong winds?
500
Which clouds tell meteorologists that the weather will be changing soon?
What are cirrus clouds?
500
When a barometer is showing high air pressure, what will the weather be like?
What is the happy, nice, clear weather?
500
A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
What type of precipitation falls to the ground as liquid when it is above 32 degrees?