Describing Weather
The instrument that measures wind speed
What is anemometer?
The type of air mass that has the greatest effect on weather in Florida
What is maritime tropical?
This causes weather to remain the same several days in a row
What is an air front?
The amount of water vapor in the air is known as ___________.
What is humidity?
Frosty the Snowman’s nose was made out this
What is a button?
A weather variable that is NOT weather related
What is evaporation?
Three characteristics of a blizzard
What is low temperatures, strong winds, blowing snow?
The tool used to gather information for an upper-air weather report
What is a radiosonde?
The series of natural processes by which water continually moves among oceans, land and the atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
The treats you leave for Santa on Christmas Eve
What is milk and cookies?
The water cycle processes directly related to cloud formation
What is evaporation and condensation?
In what type of system does air move outward
What is a high-pressure system?
Computer models do NOT
What is forecast the weather directly to the public?
Describes a set of weather measurements made on Earth’s surface
What is surface report?
The most played Christmas song on Spotify
What is “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey?
Name the 3 types of clouds and what they look like
What is cirrus clouds- wispy, stratus clouds- flat, white, layered, and cumulus clouds- fluffy, heaped, or piled up?
Name the three stages of a thunderstorm and what occurs in each stage
Data used to collect isobars would be measured with a
What is a barometer?
Is water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
This U.S. state was the first to declare Christmas an official holiday
What is Alabama?
The amount of water vapor in the air relative to what that air could hold is the
What is relative humidity?
This type of front brings several days of steady rain or snow into an area
What is a warm front?
Doppler Rader is used to
What is measuring wind speed and detecting precipitation?
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground
What is a tornado?
What is a partridge in a pear tree, Two turtle doves, Three French hens, Four calling birds, Five gold rings, Six geese a-laying, Seven swans a-swimming, Eight maids a-milking, Nine ladies dancing, Ten lords a-leaping, Eleven pipers piping, Twelve drummers drumming?