How to measure weather
This device measures wind speed
anemometer
This term describes the state of the atmosphere at a specific place and time
Weather
How do scientists classify clouds?
Shape and height
Any falling water from a cloud that collects around a small dirt particle is called...
precipitation
Winter storm (or, Miss Piercy's favorite sweet threat from Dairy Queen)
blizzard
This device measures wind direction
wind vane/wind sock
Dew on the grass is an example of this.
Dew point or condensation
These clouds are so low that they are on the ground.
Fog
Most precipitation starts out as...
If a cold front comes through, one should expect poor or fair weather patterns?
Poor (thunderstorms, rain, etc.)
This device measures air pressure
Air moving in a specific direction
wind
These clouds have low altitude and typically mean fair weather, or rain.
Stratus clouds
Falling droplets in air temperatures above freezing is called...
rain
Large, swirling low pressure system that had winds of less than 39 mph. One step below tropical storm.
Tropical depression
This device measures the amount of rain that has fallen
rain gauge
Any falling water from a cloud is given what general term?
Precipitation
Thunderstorms!!!!
Cumulonimbus clouds
Most destructive from of precipitation
hail
Violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path on land.
Tornado
This device measures humidity by using a human hair
hygrometer
When air holds the most moisture possible before it begins to fall
Saturated/saturation
White, fluffy, and puffy. Like cotton balls!
Cumulus clouds
Falling droplets in air temperatures above freezing that hit frozen surfaces on the ground are known as...
freezing rain
Created when there is a separation of charges in a cloud during two moving water droplets.
Lightning