Air Masses
What characterizes air masses?
What is moisture and temperature?
Warm front overtaking a cold front usually results in this
What is rain/snow from stratus clouds?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
What is the geographical area in the US where most tornadoes occur?
What is tornado alley?
When a cold air mass contacts a warm air mass what weather conditions occur?
What is rain?
Florida is usually very rainy. What may be the cause of a dry spell?
What is a cold high pressure air mass moving in
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
What is the band where strongest winds occur in a hurricane?
What is eye wall?
What is the hurricane rating scale called?
What is the Saffire-Simpson scale?
What weather is likely when a warm mass moves over water?
What is rain?
Low pressure systems are usually associated with what weather conditions?
What are rain and snow?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Why do some hurricanes have higher winds than others?
What is strong hurricanes have extremely low pressures 895 mbar or less causing large pressure differentials which result in strong winds?
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
What weather conditions are typical when a high pressure system stalls in that area?
What is cool and dry?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
What is the most damaging part of a hurricane?
What is a storm surge?
What is the scale to rate tornadoes called?
What is the Fujita or Enhanced Fujita intensity scale?
Name five air masses
What is mT, cT, mP, cP, cA, mE, cE?
What frontal contacts create the most violent storms?
What is a cold front overtaking a warm moist front?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
A hurricane located in the Pacific ocean
What is a typhoon?
What factors and where geographically spawns hurricanes?
What is warm water, ocean currents off the west coast of equatorial Africa?