Symbols
Fronts
Air Masses
Storms
Clouds
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A blue or red capital L.
What is the symbol for low pressure?
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It means light rain or snow,and warmer weather.
What is a warm front?
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A large body of air with uniform properties.
What is an air mass?
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When warm wet air rises fast, air coming in starts to rotate.
What is a tornado?
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Feathery light clouds above 10,000 ft.
What is a cirrus cloud?
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A blue or red capital H.
What is the symbol for high pressure?
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It means storms and colder weather.
What is a cold front?
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These initials stand for dry and cold.
What is cP or Continental Polar?
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It is made of layers of ice and water freezing; add more water; freeze; ice, water, freeze
What is hail?
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They form a grey layer, and bring rain or snow.
What is a stratus cloud?
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A red line with half circles showing the direction.
What is the symbol for warm front?
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When two air masses come together and don’t move.
What is a stationary front?
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They must be a) large in size, b) uniform and consistent, and c) travel across the atmosphere as a single unit.
What is an air mass?
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Like a tornado, but MASSIVELY bigger.
What is a hurricane?
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You often see these on a nice day or on postcards.
What is a cumulus cloud?
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A blue line with triangles showing the direction.
What is the symbol for cold front?
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It means that a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it upward.
What is an occluded front?
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It stands for moist and wet.
What is mT or Maritime Temperate?
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A charged cloud touches opposite charge and makes a spark.
What is lightning?
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These bring thunderstorms, hail, and violent weather.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
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A line with red half circles pointing one way and blue triangles pointing the opposite direction.
What is the symbol for a stationary front?
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These lines mean areas with equal barometric pressure.
What is an isobar?
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This air mass brings cold and wet weather.
What is mP or Maritime Polar?
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When lightning heats air, air expands,and makes sound waves.
What is thunder?
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These clouds have a puffy bottom and an anvil-shaped top.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
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