Extreme Weather
the difference between a storm watch and warning
What is watch is favorable weather and warning is a storm is happening?
What is a cold front?
Cold air is associated with these two things
What is high pressure and sinking air?
responsible for convection and wind on Earth
What is the uneven heating of Earth's surface by the sun
Puffy clouds that are at a low level and are associated with nice weather
What is cumulus?
whirling wind that moves in a narrow path in a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
a warm air mass that replaces a cold air mass and you get steady rain
What is a warm front?
Hot air is associated with these two things
winds are normally named this way
What is where they are blowing from?
This type of cloud is the highest in the sky where the water freezes
What is cirrus?
cold front comes and lifts up warm water vapor and it rises and turns into snow
What is lake effect snow?
this type of front is blue and red and has opposing triangles and half circles to represent it
What is stationary front?
storms are this type of pressure system
What is low pressure?
these winds blow from west to east
What is a a prevailing westerlie?
Low level layered clouds that bring cloudy days
What is stratus?
it produces a lot of rain and strong winds and they all have a name
What is a hurricane?
this front has a cold front overtaking a warm front and makes it rain for a long time
What is an occluded front?
the way we define air masses by temperature
What is tropical and polar?
these winds blow from east to west
What is a polar easterlie?
Clouds are classified by these two things
What is shape and altitude?
a low pressure system that develops over warm water
this color is used to represent a stationary front
What is red and blue?
the way we define air masses by moisture content
What is continental and maritime?
global winds turn slightly when blowing from the Equator to the Poles
What is the Coriolis Effect?
this cloud prefix means "middle"
What is alto?