Detached fluffy white clouds which generally indicate fair weather.
What are Cumulus?
100
Liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed and fallen to the surface.
What is Rain?
100
Rapidly rotating storm system which begins over warm tropical waters.
What is a Hurricane?
100
A zone of strong winds concentrated in a narrow zone of the upper atmosphere around 25,000-45,000' altitude.
What is the Jet Stream?
200
Result of the spreading out of Cumulus clouds sometimes by the wind. These will often be in groups, lines, or waves of rounded flat bottomed clouds.
What is Stratocumulus?
200
Balls of irregular ice formations that falls from clouds with strong updrafts.
What is Hail?
200
Turbulent weather accompanied by lightning.
What is a Thunderstorm?
200
A convergence zone of two different air masses.
What is a Front?
300
Low lying fog-like cloud with a uniformed base resulting in a light precipitation and occasionally you can see the outline of the sun peeking through.
What is Stratus?
300
Frozen precipitation that falls through a level of air that is above freezing and melts. This precipitation doesn't have time refreeze before it hits the surface.
What is Freezing Rain?
300
A rotating column of air that extends from the bottom of the cloud to the ground.
What is a Tornado?
300
Precipitation that falls from the cloud and evaporates before it hits the ground.
What is Virga?
400
Very high, sometimes wispy clouds. Mostly made of ice crystals.
What is Cirrus?
400
This precipitation forms and falls through a column of air which is consistently below freezing.
What is Snow?
400
An overflow of water which submerges the usually dry land.
What is a Flood?
400
Type of radar used in meteorology to detect precipitation.
What is Doppler Radar?
500
This type of cloud rises from low altitudes to considerable heights of 50,000 feet. Mostly associated with a thunderstorm.
What is a Cumulonimbus?
500
Precipitation made up of water droplets that are generally less than .02" in diameter.
What is Drizzle?
500
Consistent wind of at least 35mph and blowing snow for a prolonged period of time.
What is a Blizzard?
500
Uplift of the air flow caused by an obstruction which cause the water molecules in the atmosphere to condense and form clouds.