Storms
This is what thunder comes from.
What is the air particles around the lighting bolt begin moving around really fast from being warmed up and this pushing against the cold particles around it creates this loud sound we hear?
In this air moves outward, cool air moves downward from higher in the troposphere. As cool air falls, it warms up so relative humidity drops.
What is an anticyclone?
This is how climate zones are classified.
What is average temperature and amount of precipitation the zone gets?
This air mass mainly affects the weather on the Western side of the United States.
What is maritime polar?
This is a large air masses form over central and northern Canada and Alaska. Air masses that form near the Arctic Circle can bring bitterly cold weather with low humidity.
What is continental polar?
This is the direction that anticyclones moves in.
What is clockwise?
Hurricanes need this to fuel the storm.
What is warm moist air?
This zone is generally found inland because it does not have a lot rain.
What is dry climate zone?
These type of air masses cover smaller areas than most other air masses, and bring in dry weather to the Great Plains area.
What is continental tropic?
This is the formula for rate.
What is RATE=Distance divided by time?
Air masses are classified by these two things.
What is temperature and humidity?
Storms and other changes in weather occur along these where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
This is part of a semi-arid zone and it gets little rain but enough rain that small vegetation can grow.
What is a steppe?
These are the 4 air masses that influence the weather in North America.
What are
Maritime tropical
Continental tropical
Maritime polar
Continental polar
This is how a front forms.
What is huge masses of air move across the land and oceans, they collide with each other. But air masses do not easily mix. The less dense warm air rises and more dense cold air sinks. When two air masses with different temperatures and humidity level collide, the air masses do not easily mix?
These are the three directions that lightning can travel.
What is cloud to cloud, cloud to same cloud, and cloud to ground?
Tornadoes form from this type of cloud when warm humid air rises into this cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
This is the subgroup of Temperate Marine that we would reside in.
What is humid subtropical?
These are the two things that move air masses around the continental portion of the United States.
What are air masses are commonly moved by prevailing westerlies and jet streams in the continental US?
This type of air will hold more water vapor.
What is warm air?
These two things are needed for lightning to occur.
What is friction of ice particles and dust etc, and attraction of electrical charges (positive is attracted to negative and vice versa)?
This is a clear explanation the lake effect snow.
What is cold dry moves across the warmer water, it becomes more humid as water vapor evaporates from the lake surface and when air reaches land and cool, the lake effect snow falls?
This climate zone is dryer than the west coast marine environment.
What is the Mediterranean?
This air mass comes from warm, humid air that begins over tropical oceans such as the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic and moves north to NE weather in summer is hot and humid and in winter is rainy and snowy.
What is maritime tropical?
This is an area of low air pressure with a swirling center. When warm air at the center of a this rises, the air pressure decreases and the air cools forming clouds, wind and precipitation.
What is a cyclone?