The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
It is what is happening right now!
What is weather?
100
A great flowing or overflowing of
water, especially over land not usually submerged.
What is a flood?
100
The degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object.
What is temperature?
100
Cold air mass replacing a warm air mass. More denser and moves faster.
What is a cold front?
100
Fugita Scale
What is the scale to measure tornadoes?
200
A violent, tropical, cyclonic storm happening in the
Atlantic or Northeast Pacific oceans.Having wind speeds
of or in excess of 72 miles per hour.
What is Hurricane?
200
A tornado that occurs over in body of water.
What is water spout?
200
The quality of being hot; high temperature.
What is heat?
200
Two air masses meet but there is no movement.
What is a stationary front?
200
TS Scale
What is the scale to measure storms?
300
A localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over
land, especially in the Middle West,(Tornado Alley) and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud
extending toward the ground and made visible
by condensation and debris.
What is a tornado?
300
The Saffir-Simpson
What is the scale to measure a hurricane?
300
The process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance.
What is conduction?
300
Warm air mass replacing a cold air mass. Less dense and moves slower.
What is a warm front?
300
Same as hurricane, but they occur in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.
What is a typhoon?
400
An electric spark discharge in the atmosphere,
occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
What is lightning?
400
A loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the
explosive expansion of air heated
by a lightning discharge.
What is thunder?
400
The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as solar energy.
What is radiation?
400
Two cold air masses that sandwich a warm air mass.
What is an occluded front?
400
Same as hurricane, but they occur in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.
What is a cyclone?
500
A heavy, prolonged snowstorm. Very low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
500
NESIS
What is the scale to measure snowstorms?
500
The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat.
What is convection?
500
When two air masses meet they do not stay separate they from a _________________________.
What is a front?
500
The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.