Clouds
Weather Tools
Precipitation
Extreme Weather
100

What cloud is high in the sky, looks like a feather, and slightly wispy?

Cirrus Clouds

100

What is are the high-tech cameras that orbits the earth and takes real-time videos of the planet from above?

Satellite

100

What is liquid water that falls from the sky called?

Rain

100

What is the intense rainstorm that is accompanied by lightning, thunder, powerful downdraft winds, and often hail called?

Severe Thunderstorms

200

What cloud is Flat, spread out, and covers the sky like a blanket?

Stratus Clouds

200

What is the handheld tool called that Forecasters use that can tell us windspeed, temperature, and pressure?

Kestrel

200

What are soft, fluffy, white flakes that usually falls from the sky in the winter?

Snow

200

What is a violently rotating column of air that extends downward from a thunderstorms all the way to the ground?

Tornado

300

What cloud is Fluffy, Puffy, and kind of looks like popcorn?

Cumulous Clouds

300

What is the tool called that sends out frequencies, archives returns of frequencies and can pinpoint energy signatures in weather phenemona.

Radar

300

What are hard, solid balls of ice that fall from the sky, usually during severe thunderstorms called?

Hail

300

What is a massive, rotating tropical storm system with high winds and rain that forms over warm oceans

Hurricane

400
What cloud is dark, looks heavy, and usually indicates rain?
Nimbus Clouds
400

What is the tool called that supplies a bunch of data in an algorithms then can help forecasters predict the weather?

Model data

400

What is a mixture of liquid precip and frozen precip (more frozen then liquid) that usually bounces when they hit the ground?

Sleet / Ice Pellets

400

What is the severe winter storm that combines freezing temperatures, heavy falling or blowing snow, and howling winds that reduce visibility to near zero called?

Blizzard

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