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A body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture throughout
Air mass
Forms when cold air moves under warm air (produces thunder storms)
Cold front
Mass of warm air (brings warm, wet weather)
Low pressure area
Warm air masses that form over oceans
Maritime tropical air mass
Cool and moist air masses that form over oceans
Maritime polar air mass
Air masses that are cold and dry and form over land
Continental polar air mass
Continental tropical air mass
Mass of cold air (brings cool, dry weather)
High pressure area
The conditions of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
Weather
Scientists who study the weather and try to predict it
Meteorologist
Clouds that form in FLAT layers (can produce drizzle, rain and snow)
Stratus clouds
Likelihood that a particular even will occur
Probability
The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
Climate
A front where warm air moves over cold air and brings drizzly rain
Warm front
Puffy, low level clouds that bring heavy, wet weather (snow, sleet, rain)
Cumulus clouds
Side of a mountain that gets very little precipitation and can be desert like (dry)
Leeward side
A dry area on the leeward side of a mountain
Rain shadow
In the direction the wind is blowing
Downwind