Weather
Study of weather
What is meteorology?
A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
What is clouds?
Local, intense storm that can have strong winds, heavy rain, lightning, thunder, and sometimes hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
Any form of water falling to Earth's surface.
What are cirrus clouds?
Low pressure system with winds blowing at 74 mi/hr
What is a hurricane?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What are the main types of precipitation?
Thin, flat, edges not defined
What are stratus clouds?
You hear a tornado warning that a tornado has been spotted.
What is move to a basement or an inner room with no windows?
It rained all day, stopped, and then cooled down significantly-you would see this.
What is fog?
Thick, puffy clouds.
What are cumulus?
This is created by the rapid expansion of air along a lightning strike.
Psychrometer
What is the tool to measure relative humidity?
Low, middle, high, vertical development.
What are clouds based on altitude?
What is a tornado?