Global Meteorology
Average weather in a region
White fluffy clouds that look like cotton
What is cumulus?
A long period with no rainfall
What is a drought?
Violent rotating column of air
What is a tornado?
The atmospheric level where weather takes place
What is the troposphere?
Clouds that produce hail
What is cumulonimbus?
Thick water vapor that block's ones vision
What is fog?
Name given to the center of a hurricane
What is the eye?
Prevailing winds near the equator
What are trade winds?
Cloud type highest in altitude
What are cirrus clouds?
Rain that freezes as it falls
What is sleet?
Result of rapidly expanding air
What is thunder?
Characteristic of an air mass brought from the South to the Northern Hemisphere
Tropical
A measurement that would be taken by a ceilometer
What is cloud height?
Horizontal transport of air or atmospheric conditions
What is advection?
Inundation of coastal areas from waves and storm surge
What is coastal flooding?
Standing in the Northern Hemisphere with wind on your back, where's the low pressure?
Unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location
What is an okta?
A scale that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land
What is the Beaufort scale?
Radar feature of arched out line of thunderstorms embedded within a squall line
What is a bow echo?