Throwing Shade
These are layered flat clouds
small piece of ice that is tossed up and down inside a cloud forming layers
What is hail?
Caused by opposite electrical charges that built up in very tall clouds.
What is lightning?
The basic cause of all weather
What is the sun?
Lightning bolts that do not come down but remain within the cloud.
What is sheet lightning?
These clouds are puffy and bulgy
What are cumulus couds?
falling ice crystals that melt but refreeze as soon as they land
What is freezing rain?
The shock waves caused by rapid expansion of superheated air
What is thunder?
A scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
When the humidity of the air is at 100%.
What is saturated?
Wispy, curly clouds that are very high
What are cirrus clouds?
falling ice crystals that melt into raindrops and hit the earth as tiny pieces of ice
What is sleet?
What is a tornado?
The imaginary line that runs through earth from pole to pole.
What is the axis?
When water vapor leaves the air and changes into liquid water.
What is condensation?
What is wet snow?
The very calm, low pressure region in the center of a tornado.
What is the eye?
Most of the warmth the air receives is from here.
What is the ground?
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
Made of very small ice crystals
What are cirrus clouds?
Ice crystals that become too heavy so they fall, melt, and hit the earth as water.
What is rain?
This is issued when a tornado has been spotted
What is a warning?
What are seasons?
The lowest possible temperature at which air is able to hold all its water vapor.
What is dew point?
"Thunderhead"
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
Water vapor that condenses and forms frozen water on the ground.
What is frost?
What is a stepped leader?
They produce different temperatures on earth.
What are winds?
The row of thunderheads that build up in the front of advancing cold air.
What is a squall line?
Any cloud from which rain is falling
Water vapor that condenses and forms liquid water on the ground.
What is dew?
The broad, flat top of a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is anvil?
It is heavier than warm air.
What is cool air.
The amount of water vapor that the air can hold at any given temperature.
What is relative humidity?