Station Models
The wind direction, if the line on the weather station is pointing down.
What is south?
large tropical storm that forms over warm ocean area
What is a hurricane?
Type of storm that can have the most powerful winds on Earth?
What is a tornado?
A boundary that separates two air masses of different densities.
What is a front?
Located over the northern part of the United States - like Michigan
What is continental polar?
A completely colored in circle on a station model.
What is 100% cloudy or completely overcast?
Range of months for hurricane season
What are June-November?
Range of months for tornado season
What are March-June?
This occurs when a warm air mass pushes over a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
Located near southeastern United States - Gulf Coast area
What is maritime tropical?
The number in the upper left of a station model
What is temperature?
Scale used to rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale?
What hurricanes are called in the Pacific Ocean
What are typhoons?
The front that has blue triangles on one side and red half circles on the other and they rotate?
What is a stationary front?
Located over the southwestern United States - like Arizona
What is continental tropical?
Convert 1013.6 millibars to the shorthand form on a station model.
What is 136 millibars?
A scale used to measure wind speed, based on property damage, for a hurricane
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
What are cumulus, mature and dissipating?
The cold air mass from the cold front meets the cool air above the warm front and the warm air rises as the air masses squeeze together.
Why does a occluded front form?
Located near northeastern United States - near the coast of Maine
What is maritime polar?
Station model shows 196 in pressure with a +19 change in pressure 3 hours ago.
What is 1017.7 millibars?
Explain why lightning bolts happen, using the terms positive and negative charges.
What are negative charges at bottom of storm cloud travel to positively charged ground?
A place in a hurricane with very low air pressure
What is the eye?
Warm air rising and cold air sinking that drives all weather patterns
What are convection currents?
What is maritime tropical and continental polar?