Air Masses
This is a large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture throughout
Air Mass
This is a boundary that forms when 2 different air masses meet.
Front
Most of Africa is in what climate zone?
Tropical
These winds are fast moving ribbons of air that move from the west to the east in the Northern Hemisphere. Airplanes like to hitch a ride on this when they have to fly from the US to Europe to use less fuel and to get there quicker.
Jet Stream
High Pressure
This air mass brings hot and very dry weather. It usually forms over the desert during the summer.
Continental Tropical or cT
This type of front occurs when a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but don't move. It brings drizzly rain or snow.
Stationary Front
This climate zone is able to experience all 4 seasons. It is where we live.
Temperate Zone
This ocean current affects the west coast of the United States off the Pacific Ocean by bringing cold, moist air along with it.
California Current
This pressure system circles counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and results in raining and/or stormy weather.
Low Pressure
This air mass is cold and dry. It often dominates the weather in the USA during the winter.
Continental Polar or cP
This type of front occurs when a warm air mass is pushed up between a cool and colder air mass. It brings cool temperatures and precipitation.
Occluded Front
Where does the Sun hit the Earth indirectly causing cold temperatures year around?
Poles
This ocean current affects us in South Carolina and the rest on the east coast of the United States. It brings warm, moist air along with it.
Gulf Stream
These storms are formed over a cold front in a low pressure system. You can also see them with a cumulonimbus cloud.
Thunderstorms
This air mass brings warm temperatures with lots of moisture. It is responsible for the hot, humid summer.
Maritime Tropical or mT
This type of front occurs when a cold air mass pushes out a warm air mass. It brings thunderstorms, heavy rain, or snow.
Cold Front
Where does the Sun hit the Earth directly causing warm temperatures year around?
Equator
This type of wind blows from the west to the east, they are found in temperate zones (30-60 degrees latitude), and impact the United States the most.
Prevailing Westerlies
These storms are formed by a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that extends down from a storm cloud in a low pressure system.
Tornado
This air mass is cool and moist. It usually brings cloudy, damp weather to the Pacific Northwest and the Atlantic Northeast.
Maritime Polar or mP
This type of front occurs when a warm air mass meets and overrides a cold air mass. It brings drizzly rain or snow.
Warm Front
1) This absorbs heat energy and releases it quickly.
2) This absorbs heat energy and releases it slowly.
1) Land
2) Water
These 2 types of winds affect the direction of tropical weather systems like hurricanes.
Trade Winds and Westerlies
This type of storm forms in a low pressure system over warm ocean water. The winds form a spinning circular pattern around the center of the eye. These storms that impact the eastern coast of the US come from the west coast of Africa.
Hurricanes