Lightning
Indication that a frontal cyclone has reached full strength
What is the formation of an occluded front?
A wind that reverses is direction from season to season
What is a monsoon?
Air mass that brings hot, dry weather
What is continental tropical?
Creates the flash of a bolt of lightning
What is the return stroke?
The tornado classification scale
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale?
A tropical low-pressure system that does not have rotating winds
What is a tropical disturbance?
A weather forcast
What is a weather prediction?
A tropical cyclone with wind speeds between 39mi/h and 74mi/h
A device used to measure rainfall
What is a rain guage?
Elevated water caused by a hurricane's winds
What is a storm surge?
The stream of electrons causing a lightning bolt to make a second strike
What is a dart leader?
The mesopause
What is the coldest point in the atmosphere?
A drought that effects an area's groundwater and streams
What is a hydrological drought?
Radiation fog extending no more than 6ft above the ground
What is shallow fog?
The hurricane ranking scale
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
A rotating column of air that starts on the ground
What is a dust devil?
The part of a lightning bolt that creates thunder
What is the return stroke?
Used to measure high-altitude weather conditions
What is a weather balloon?
Reffering to numbers and symbols on a weather map to read observations from a weather station
What is a station model?
The furthest distance that an object is still able to be seen
What is visibility?
Uses a flexible, airtight metal box to measure changes in atmospheric pressure
What is an aneroid barometer?
A single updraft system in a thunderstorm
What is a cell?
The most intense type of downburst
What is a microburst?
Nitrogen
What is the most abundant gas in the homosphere?
When the air is saturated
What is a relative humidity of 100%?