Weather Inturments
What counts the amount of precipitation?
what is a Rain gauge
Stratus clouds that touch earths surface?
fog
Warm air mass approches and slowley rises/slides over a cold air mass
Warm front
Winds that blow from west to east in the temperture climate zones?
what are prevailing westerlies
A fast moving tbe of air that flows from west to east high above the us
What is jet stream
What shows the direction of wind?
what is a Wind vane
low,light,gray blanket-like clouds that cover the sky,Layers
Stratus
What is it called when two air masses meet
what is a front
winds that blow from east to west in temperture climate zones?
what are trade winds
A warm ocean current in the atlantic ocean that flows north from the eqauter along the eastern coast of the us
what is gulf stream
What measures wind speed?
what is a anemometer
thin,wispy,feather-like cloud that are made of ice crystals
Cirrus
cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass,forcing the warm air mass up quickly
what is a cold front
Air is heavy and sinks
What is high pressure system
The unuasal warming of water in the pacific ocean
what is El nino
What measures air temperture?
what is a Thermometer
White,puffy clouds that look like cotton balls
Cumulus
a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet,but neither moves past each other
what is a staitionary front
Wind that blows from east to west in the polar climate zones
what is polar easterlies
The unusal cooling of water in the pacific ocean
what is el nina
What measures air pressre?
what is a Barometer
low,dark gray,blanket-like that covers the sky,just like stratus,but brings rain
nimbostratus
A warm air mass gets caught beween two cold air masses,warm air rises up between the two
what is a occluded front
Wind blows from sea towards land
what is sea breeze
Wind or air that flows in a narrow band in a certain direction
what is a current or stream