Air masses/pressure systems
This air mass is cold in temperature and has a low level of humidity.
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
This is the name typically given to the boundary between two air masses.
What is a weather front?
This type of severe weather brings with it heavy rain and lightning and can also result in flooding.
What is a thunderstorm?
This layer of the atmosphere atmospheric weather patterns occur
What is the troposphere?
what is a thunderstorm?
This type of air mass will typically form near the gulf of Mexico.
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
This type of front results from a warm air mass pushing a cold one out of the way.
This type of severe weather results from high winds creating continuous snow squalls over a large area.
What is a blizzard?
This layer of the earth's atmosphere is the center most layer. It is also the layer where asteriods tend to burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
This persisting weather patterns happens at places in close proximity to large lakes. It is very common in upstate New York.
What is lake effect snow?
this type of pressure system is typically associated with nice weather.
what is a high pressure system?
This type of air mass occurs when two air masses meet and neither is strong enough to move the other.
What is a stationary front?
This type of severe weather results from extremely high winds forcing raindroplets to continuously cycle through the upper atmosphere, repeatedly freezing and growing in size.
What is a hailstorm?
This layer of the earth's atmosphere is where you will see weather balloons gathering data for the meteorologists down below.
What is the stratosphere?
Tropical air masses typically form around this latitude?
What is 0 degrees north (what is the equator)?
This type of pressure system is typically associated with high winds and heavy precipitation.
What is a low pressure system?
This type of air front forms when two cold air masses pinch and squeeze a warm air mass.
What is an occluded front?
This type of severe weather can results from wind currents over the ocean continuously sucking up moisture and growing in stength until it becomes and incredibly powerful force of nature that can cause widespread devastation.
What is a hurricane?
THis layer of the atmosphere is the one where we typically see auroras forming.
What is the thermosphere?
packing food and supplies and getting everyone to a safe high ground location are you best bets at safety during this severe weather pattern.
What is a flood?
Wind typically travels in this direction.
High pressure systems to low pressure systems.
This type of front typically results in thunderstorms as a result of warm moist air being forced upwards into the atmosphere.
What is a cold front?
This type of weather pattern can last over several weeks and can be incredibly damaging to highly populated areas, especially ones with a lot of senior citizens.
What is a drought?
This layer of the atmosphere is where we will typically see manmade satellites orbiting earth.
What is the exosphere?
This type of weather pattern is responsible for the powerful seasonal snowstorms and blizzards that we have here in New York.
What is a Nor'Easter?