Cloud Types
High feathery clouds that usually mean a change in weather is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
An instrument for measuring temperature
What is a thermometer?
A front that brings in a warm air mass and can often bring storm systems with it over an area
What is a warm front?
Puffy, white or light gray clouds that often look like cotton balls or popcorn
What is a cumulus cloud?
Instrument used to detect storms and precipitation
What is a radar?
A front that brings in a cold air mass and can lead to cloud development
What is a cold front?
A large and localized lowering of cloud that develops beneath the surrounding base of a cumulonimbus cloud and from which tornadoes sometimes form
What is a wall cloud?
An instrument used to measure the amount of liquid precipitation
What is a rain Gauge?
A front where warm air is forced over cold air
What is an occluded front?
A wedge-shaped cloud that forms at the leading edge of a storm
What is a shelf cloud?
An instrument that ascends into the atmosphere to collect data to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity
What is a weather Balloon?
This "front" is technically not a front, but separates dry and moist air masses
What is a dryline?
Clouds that look bumpy or pouch-like from below
What are mammatus clouds?
Instrument that is used to protect weather instruments from external influences like direct sunlight, rain, and other elements.
Stevenson Screen
A front that shows a pause or stall in the normal movement of fronts
What is a stationary front?