Measuring Weather
Clouds & Precipitation
Predicting Weather
Local Weather
Global Weather
100
shows the direction of the wind.
What is wind vane? (weather vane)
100
a type of cloud that are low and sometimes bring rain.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Temperature, Precipitation, Wind and Air Pressure.
What are the types of weather conditions?
100
when the wind is cool during a hot summer day at the beach.
What is a sea breeze?
100
the Global winds that affect North Carolina and most of the USA.
What are the Westerlies?
200
measures the amount of rain that falls.
What is a rain gauge?
200
when ice crystals stay frozen as they fall.
What is snow?
200
when the barometer reading changes to tell you that fair weather is on its way.
What increase in air pressure? (High Pressure system)
200
often produces a dry area or desert on the far side of a mountain.
What is rain shadow?
200
the flow of air or water in a ceratin direction.
What is a current?
300
measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
a type of cloud that are present during nice weather and are big and puffy.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
the type of weather that happens after a cold air mass bumps into a warm air mass.
What is colder temperatures with thunderstorms?
300
forms over warm ocean water and can bring strong winds and heavy rain to North Carolina's coast in summer or fall.
What is a hurricane?
300
an unusual warming of water in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
400
measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
is frozen or partly frozen rain.
What is sleet?
400
a front that brings clouds and precipitation that last for several days because it is not moving.
What is stationary front?
400
describes the weather druing spring in North Carolina?
What is mild weather?
400
the effect of a polar jet stream on temperatures in the south.
What is temperatures will fall?
500
the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time.
What is weather?
500
high, wispy clouds made up of ice crystals.
What is cirrus cloud?
500
the affect on air pressure when the barometer reading changes from fair to stormy weather.
What is decreasing air pressure? (Low pressure system)
500
a warm ocean current that keeps weather along North Carolina's coast mild during the winter months.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
a current in the upper atmosphere.
What is jet stream?
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