Clouds
Precipitation
Severe Weather
Winter Weather
Grab Bag
100
Detached clouds in the form of white, delicate, filaments, mostly white patches or narrow bands. The have a fibrous (hair-like) or silky appearance.
What is Cirrus Clouds
100
Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops
What is rain?
100
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
100
rain mixed with snow.
What is freezing rain?
100
Ground level clouds
What is fog?
200
Cirrus, Cirrostratus, and Cirrocumulus clouds are parts of this category of clouds.
What is high clouds.
200
atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
What is snow?
200
The occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a could and the ground with a cloud.
What is lightning?
200
a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
200
condensation on objects or the ground.
What is dew?
300
Altostratus, Altocumulus, and Nimbostratus clouds are all part of this category of clouds.
What is mid clouds?
300
A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
What is sleet?
300
covered or submerged with water.
What is flooding?
300
a blizzard, especially in polar regions, that reduces visibilities to near zero.
What is a white-out.
300
the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
What is a cold front?
400
Cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and stratocumulus are all part of which category of clouds?
What is low clouds?
400
pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
What is hail?
400
a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
What is a hurricane?
400
a bank of deep snow heaped up by the wind
What is a snow drift?
400
the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
What is a warm front?
500
Clouds that produce tornados
What is funnel clouds?
500
Precipitation that can reach the size of a softball.
What is hail?
500
a sudden and violent shaking of the ground.
What is an earthquake?
500
a transparent coating of ice, found especially on a road or other paved surface.
What is black ice?
500
when a gust front or other strong wind blows loose sand and dirt from a dry surface.
What is a dust storm?
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