Cloud Types
Extremely High Elevation Sheets of Clouds, Like Blankets.
Cirrostratus
Warm, Dry Air Mass
Continental Tropical
Name 2 types of precipitation that fall as liquids.
Rain and Freezing Rain
Usually during the day the wind blows from the sea to land or from the land to sea?
Sea to land
True or False: There can be all 3 families of clouds showing at one time.
True
No Rain From These Tendrils/Hairs
Cirrus
Warm, Wet Air Mass
Maritime Tropical
Salt, Smoke, Dust, Dirt, etc..
What happens when a warm and cold front mix together.
Rain/Storms
What type of air mass will cause hurricanes most of the time on their own
Maritime Tropical
Oh look I see a lion in that cloud! No, it looks like a sheep!
Cumulus
Cold, Dry Air Mass
Continental Polar
Which type of cloud can it NEVER rain from...but indicates rain coming soon
Cirrus
What is the effect on earth that makes liquids in the north move right and liquids in the south move left?
Coriolis Effect
Why are cirrus clouds always white?
Made of ice crystals.
A bunch of puffy clouds that are at a middle elevation
Altocumulus
Cold, Wet Air Mass
This is the man who first studied the clouds and came up with their names.
Luke Howard
When 2 fronts are locked together for an extended period of time and you get the same weather for a few days.
Stationary Front
Which type of cloud can be at all three levels of the atmosphere?
Cumulus
All those beautiful clouds came together...oh no...it is going to thunderstorm from this cloud for sure!
Cumulonimbus
Extremely Cold and Dry Air Mass that happens at the poles.
Continental Arctic
They don't last long. You can't take a piece of a cloud to study it.
Winds high up (5-7 miles) in the air that are constantly push air masses around. In the north it blows from west to east.
Jets Streams
You have a friend in Pittsburgh and a friend in Ocean City, New Jersey...which one can probably tell you the weather in Hummelstown coming up?
Pittsburgh....weather mostly moves west to east.