Weather Tools
What measures temperature?
Thermometer
What carries weather tools up into the sky to obtain data of the atmospheric conditions above us?
Weather Balloon
What scientist studies and forecasts the weather?
Meteorologist
Fog is usually included in a weather forecast; true or false?
True
Environmental conditions at a specific (short period) of time is called Weather or Climate?
Weather = Specific/Short Period of Time
Climate = Long Period of Time (30 Years)
What measures wind direction?
Wind Vane/Wind Sock
A lower pressure system (L) indicates what type of weather?
Rain or Snow (Possible Storm)
What type of front has a blue line with solid triangles?
Cold Front
A wind gust is when the wind blows much harder for a long time or a few seconds?
A Few Seconds
Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain, and Rain are types of what?
Precipitation
What measures humidity?
Hygrometer
What shows cloud patterns and storm development over large areas of the earth?
Satellites (Orbiting the Earth)
What type of front has a solid red line with half circles?
Warm Front
Onshore winds blow towards the land; true or false?
True
Onshore winds blow from sea-to-land.
Offshore winds blow from land-to-sea.
Tornado
What measures atmospheric pressure?
Barometer
What type of weather does a higher pressure system (H) bring?
Typically brings clear skies, light winds, and dry, settled conditions.
A computer model uses what to help predict the weather?
Historical Data/Patterns of Weather
When cold air blows over warm water and picks up lots of water vapor it produces? Lake ------ ----
Lake Effect Snow
Typhoons and Cyclones are called what in the Atlantic Ocean?
Hurricanes
What measures wind speed?
Anemometer
Partly Cloudy/Partly Sunny is what percentage of cloud coverage?
50%
What is used to track wind direction, precipitation, and storms such as tornadoes?
Doppler Radar
When it's cold outside and the wind makes it feel even colder that is called a Wind ----- ------
Wind Chill Factor
Cumulonimbus clouds create what type of weather?
Thunderstorms/Tornadoes