Clouds
A cloud that is wispy and feathery.
What is a cirrus cloud?
Humidity is the amount of this in the air.
What is water vapor?
A sudden, rapid flow of snow, sliding down a mountain slope.
What is an avalanche?
To measure the temperature of the air, use me.
What is a thermometer?
The general direction weather patterns move in the United States.
What is west to east?
Name 3 types of clouds.
What are cumulus, stratus and cirrus?
It begins when clouds become saturated.
What is rain?
A rise in seawater level driven primarily by intense winds pushing massive volumes of ocean water toward the shoreline, making it one of the deadliest threats during hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
What is a storm surge?
Feeling like the air is weighing down on you, to measure the air pressure use me.
What is a barometer?
It forms a boundary between a cold air mass and a warm air mass.
What is a jet stream?
Clouds associated with thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
The Saffir-Simpson Scale measures the intensity of this type of extreme weather event, and is partly named for meteorologist Robert Simpson.
What is a hurricane?
Use this when you want to know your altitude, or elevation above sea level.
What is an altimeter?
Prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.
What are the prevailing westerlies?
Clouds frequently are composed of these two things.
What is water and dust particles?
Someone who is trained to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
A localized column of sinking air within a thunderstorm can produce these dangerous, brief downdrafts that cause extreme wind shear and damage resembling a tornado.
What is a microburst?
I measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
A meteorological phenomenon where a mountain range acts as a physical barrier to weather systems, making it much drier on the leeward side.
What is the rainshadow effect?
A cloud that looks like a flat, featureless blanket covering the sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
When clouds start raining because they are getting pushed over mountains
What is orographic lifting?
A white, opaque ice that forms when supercooled water droplets in fog, or clouds, freezing instantly upon contact with any surface.
What is rime ice?
Use this tool to measure the amount of water vapor, or humidity, in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
A cyclical weather pattern, causing heavy rainfall in South America and pushing a wave-like jet stream that brings unusually wet and stormy winters to the southern United States.
What is El Niño?