forecasting
weather tools
humidity (fronts)
types of storms
misc..
100
The most important variable in forecasting.
What is pressure?
100
Tells us the wind speed.
What is anemometer?
100
Describe humidity.
What is amount of vapor in the air?
100
Severe storm caused by a frontal boundary, with strong wind, lightning, and rain.
What is thunderstorm?
100
The number of air masses in North America.
What is 5?
200
Tells us information about the surface of the earth.
What is surface report?
200
Tells us barometric pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This will effect how humid the air is.
What is temperature?
200
Strong winter storm with high winds and heavy snow.
What is a blizzard?
200
A cold dry air mass from the north.
What is continental polar?
300
Tells us information about the upper levels of the troposphere.
What is upper air report?
300
Tells us speed of storm, type of precip, and its movement.
What is doppler radar?
300
Where a two air masses come together.
What is a front?
300
Caused by the updraft of a thunderstorm that starts to rotate.
What is a tornado?
300
A hot dry air mass from the south.
What is continental tropical?
400
Tells us the forecast at a specific location using a circle, lines, numbers, and symbols to represent precip.
What is station model?
400
Set of formulas used to predict the weather.
What is computer model?
400
When a cold air mass pushes a warm air mass up.
What is a cold front?
400
Massive tropical storm that must have warm water to continue.
What is a hurricane?
400
A hot humid air mass from the south.
What is maritime tropical?
500
Six variables for a weather forecast.
What are temperature, pressure, wind, humidity, clouds, precipitation?
500
Sent high into troposphere to gather data about the air.
What is a radiosonde?
500
If this is met and the air can no longer hold its humidity, dew will form on car windshields.
What is dew point?
500
The three phases of a thunderstorm.
What is cumulus, mature, dissipation.
500
A cold humid air mass from the north.
What is maritime polar?
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