Storms
A storm that forms over warm tropical waters.
What is a hurricane?
Three basic clouds forms.
What are stratus, cumulus and cirrus?
If you have a low pressure system in your area you could expect
What is warm, moist air, storms, and overcast skies?
The state of the atomosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
Measures the temperature either in Fahrenheit or Celsius
What is a thermometer?
A storm that forms over land and has a funnel-shaped cloud.
What is a tornado?
Puffy, white clouds that appear to rise up from a flat bottom.
What are cumulus clouds?
Air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
What is wind?
The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it. This decreases as you go higher in altitude.
What is air pressure?
This instrument measures the amount of rain fall or precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
A storm that occurs when a warm air mass and cold air mass meet, it has heavy winds and rain, thunder and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
Clouds that form at very high altitudes out of ice crystals and have a wispy, featherlike shape.
What are cirrus clouds?
This zone or climate is found near the equator, temperatures are high all year. Rainfall is plentiful.
What is the tropics?
The amount of the Sun's energy that reaches Earth at a given time and place.
What is thermal energy?
This weather instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The two types of air masses that meet to form a thunderstorm or hurricane.
What is a cold and warm air mass?
Clouds that form at low altitudes in blanketlike layers.
What are stratus clouds?
Billy recorded wind speed and amount of precipitation during a storm, he used these weather tools
What is an anemometer and a rain gauge?
Cold air moves in under a warm air mass. This type of front often brings brief, heavy storms.
What is cold front?
This weather instrument measures wind direction
What is wind vane or weather vane?
A storm that we studied that does not have winds over 75 mph
What is a thunderstorm?
When rain or snow fall from a cloud this term is added to the cloud's name.
What is nimbo or nimbus?
Precipitation is falling and the average temperature for this day is 28 degrees farenheit, we could guess that it would be this type of precipitation
What is snow?
Warm air moves in over a cold air mass. This type of front often brings light, steady rain or snow. The precipitation may last for days.
What is warm front?
This weather instrument measures the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?