Clouds
The really tall clouds associated with thunderstorms.
What is Cumulous or CumuloNimbus
A front that stays in one place for an extended period of time.
What is a stationary front?
All weather is the result of this.
What is heat exchange (or the heating of the Earth by the Sun)?
Two weather conditions that will reduce visibility
What are fog, precipitation, clouds, or thunderstorms? (any two of these)
The best strategy for dealing with low-level wind shear.
What is avoidance?
The name given to the temperature at which fog will form.
What is the dew point?
The weather that you would experience just before the passage of a cold front.
What are rain showers?
The general direction of the prevailing winds at altitude above the United States.
What is west to east?
Lines on weather maps that show regions with equal atmospheric pressure.
What are isobars?
The long frontal lines of a thunderstorm.
What are squall lines?
The direction of movement of unstable air.
What is up (or it rises)?
The type of air mass that is typically found above northern Canada.
What is continental polar?
The wind effect which is the result of the fact that the Earth rotates faster at the equator than it does at the poles.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
The name of the lifting action that results from a cold air mass overtaking a warm air mass.
What is frontal lifting?
The name given to the increase in temperature of the atmosphere as we increase altitude.
What is a temperature inversion?
The first piece of coded information found on a line of a METAR report.
What is the airport identifier code?
The air movement pattern associated with convection.
What is rising and sinking of air?
The gas that makes up the greatest part of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The precipitation that results from water riding updrafts and down drafts repeatedly within a thunderstorm.
What is hail?
The name of the rate at which temperature decreases as altitude increases.
What is the adiabatic lapse rate?
What METAR stands for.
What is Meteorological Aerodrome Report
On a weather chart symbol for wind direction and speed, the speed of the wind indicated by two long lines and one short line.
What is 25 knots?
The creating of water vapor directly from solid water.
What is Sublimation?
The stage of thunderstorm development when the warm air ceases to rise.
What is the dissipating stage?