Fronts
This brings cooler temperatures, increased clouds, and possible storms.
What weather do Cold fronts bring?
This is a person who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
A violent storm with lightning and thunder and typically also heavy rain or hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
These are the names of the four fronts we studied.
What are cold, warm, stationary, and occluded?
This is a narrow band of fast moving winds located high in the atmosphere.
What is the jet stream?
This brings warmer temperatures, increased clouds, and steady precipitation.
What weather do Warm fronts bring?
This is the transfer of heat energy by the circulation or movement of a liquid or gas. (Warm air rising and cool air sinking)
What is convection current?
This is a large storm with violent winds that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
This is the difference between weather and climate.
Weather is the day to day, hour to hour, minute by minute conditions of our atmosphere.
Climate is the average conditions of an area based on data complied over many years. (Temperature and Precipitation)
This acts as a boundary between warm and cold air and can move air masses around.
What is a jet stream?
This is when a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but neither air mass has enough force to move the other air mass.
What is a Stationary front?
This is the reason we have seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt?
A storm with violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud and forms from supercell systems made up of cumulonimbus clouds.
What is a tornado?
This explains how wind is formed.
Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure due to the uneven heating and cooling of the Earth's surface.
This is the effect that Gulf Streams have on our North Carolina coast.
What is milder (warmer) temperatures along the coast.
This is what happens to the barometric pressure when any front arrives.
What is the barometric pressure drops/decreases/goes down?
This is the classification system used to rate the destructive forces of tornadoes.
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
This is a severe snow storm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
It is May in North Carolina so it is this season in Australia.
What is Fall/Autumn?
This is what you should do to have the best protection when a hurricane has been forecasted for your area.
What is evacuate?
This describes the air mass' temperature behind a cold front.
What is cool/cold air?
This is the number of hurricanes in a particular season if the latest hurricane has been named Gilda.
What is seven?
A B C D E F Gilda
One of these alerts tells you that conditions are favorable for severe weather where as the other alert indicates that a severe storm has already formed.
What is the difference between a watch and a warning?
This is the effect of an overcast sky on our temperatures during the day versus during the night.
What is overcast (cloudy) skies decrease temperatures during the day because the block some of the sun's energy, and at night, temperatures are warmer when the skies are covered in clouds?
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This are the instruments we use to measure...
1 air pressure, 2 wind speed , 3 humidity,
4 precipitation
What is a barometer, anemometer, humidity, and rain gauge?