Clouds
This cloud is the most common fair-weather cloud you'll see, typically being large, white, and puffy :)
Cumulus
This is the term used to classify distinct geographical regions of similar climates, flora, and fauna.
Biome
This gas comprises 78% of the air in our atmosphere.
Nitrogen
While technically🤓 a post-tropical cyclone during landfall, this notorious “Super Storm” was one of the most destructive hurricanes of recent history in the Northeastern U.S, heavily flooding New Jersey and Long Island.
Hurricane Sandy
This is the weather system that forms as a boundary between two air masses. It typically results in stormy weather with temperatures rising or dropping within a short period of time.
A front
This cloud, made of ice crystals, is common in the upper atmosphere and appears light and wispy.
Cirrus
The ozone hole, an area of anomalously low concentrations of ozone in the atmosphere, was discovered in 1985 in what region of the world?
Antarctica
This gas is arguably the most important greenhouse gas in our atmosphere. It is also the most important gas for the weather.
Water Vapor
This enormous, erratic tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded on Earth. Despite its diameter of 2.6 miles and estimated wind speeds of 313 mph, it was only categorized as an EF3.
2013 El Reno Tornado
This is the instrument used to measure the wind speed in the atmosphere.
Anemometer
This is your typical storm cloud, sometimes reaching as high as 60,000 feet in the atmosphere. It is marked by an anvil-shaped top due to the interaction with the tropopause.
Cumulonimbus
This is the primary type of radiation that gets absorbed by gases and reflected back towards Earth, causing the greenhouse effect.
Longwave/Infrared Radiation
This is the third most abundant gas in our atmosphere (on average).
Argon
Among the costliest disasters in human history, this category 4 hurricane wreaked havoc on the Texas coast, inundating some areas with up to 60 inches of rainfall over just 4 days.
Hurricane Harvey
This force, or lack thereof, is the primary reason why Hurricanes tend not to form and persist close to the equator.
Coriolis Force
These rare clouds are typically seen after a thunderstorm passes by. They are very recognizable by their lumpy undersides formed through small, localized areas of rising and sinking air.
Mammatus
Compared to its four other counterparts, this Great Lake is the most difficult to completely freeze over during any given year, with the last year of 100% ice cover occurring in 1934.
Lake Ontario
These kinds of aerosols are almost entirely responsible for the formation of raindrops.
Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Largely responsible for the creation of the New York Subway System, this powerful March snowstorm dropped up to 30 inches of snow on the city with drifts as high as 15 feet.
Blizzard of 1888
This hurricane had the strongest 1-minute sustained winds ever recorded within a tropical cyclone at 215 mph. Thankfully, it weakened before making landfall in Southwestern Mexico.
Hurricane Patricia
This kind of cloud appears as a stationary, lens-shaped cloud over the top of a mountain. It forms through orographic lift, which raises the air over the mountain, causing it to cool and condense.
Lenticular
Developed in 1884 by a Russian-German climatologist, this is the most widely used climate classification system with five main climate groups and 31 total classifications.
Köppen climate classification
This is the current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere (in ppm).
430 ppm
Considered the deadliest tropical cyclone in human history, this devastating storm struck the then East Pakistan coast with 150 mph winds and storm surges as high as 33 feet.
1970 Bhola Cyclone
This is the official name of the scale that categorizes tropical cyclones based on wind speed.
Saffir-Simpson Scale