A little foggy here
Smoke and fog mixture
What is smog?
What is drought?
This cloud produces strong thunderstorms
What is cumulonimbus?
Extended period of heavy snow and wind
What is a blizzard
When warm air rises over cold air
What is a warm front
This type of fog forms on the slopes of mountains
What is upslope fog?
Heavy, sticky snow.
What is wet snow?
This cloud looks like a lens or UFO
What is lenticular
Water vapor requires this to form clouds.
What is condensation nuclei?
When a warm front is caught from behind by a cold air mass.
What is an occluded front.
The fog created that only extends 6 ft off the ground
What is shallow fog?
Not enough precipitation to provide for crops.
What is agricultural drought?
Mid-level clouds that are like a blanket and lighter in color.
What is altostratus?
The ratio of water in the air to the amount of water in saturated air.
What is saturated air?
This air mass brings dry frigid air from the artic
What is artic air mass?
When fog has visibility over 1 mile
What is mist?
Rain that is 0.2-0.5 millimeters wide.
What is a drizzle?
A mid-level cloud known for covering the sky and producing steady precipitation.
What is nimbostratus?
When water is evaporating into the air at the same rate of condensing.
What is saturated air?
Warm and humid air that form over warm waters near equator.
What is maritime tropical?
The fog produced when warm air passes over a cold surface
What is advection fog?
The process where clouds with ice crystals/snow can become rain, sleet or snow depending on the temperature
This cloud is created from condensed water vapor from airplanes
What are contrails?
night and day solar radiation, the earth's tilt, the earth being a sphere, and water vs land heat absorption all contribute to what factor that causes changes in weather?
What is the uneven distribution of heat?
A low-pressure zone forms along a front and uses the Coriolis effect to spin.
What is a frontal cyclone?