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What is Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, or Florida?
This instrument is used to measure Air Pressure.
What is a Barometer?
Hurricanes will usually bring this with them to coastlines as they come in from the open ocean, causing flooding.
What is storm surge?
If a front has shapes on both sides of the line, it is this front.
What is a stationary front?
This band of strong wind is the reason weather moves towards the northeast in the United States.
What is the jet stream?
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
This is the term we use to classify hurricanes based on their wind speed.
What is category?
This is the direction hurricanes spin in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is counter-clockwise?
In this front, cold air rams into warm air, causing it to rise.
What is a cold front?
Tornadoes, just like hurricanes, also spin this direction in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is counter-clockwise?
If a station model has a reading of 107 for the air pressure, I know the pressure is actually this.
What is 1010.7 millibars?
Because of greenhouse gases, this is occurring across the globe.
What is Global Warming?
Hurricanes in the Atlantic usually start as these kinds of storms off the coast of Africa.
What are thunderstorms?
An air mass that forms over the Gulf of Mexico would be this.
What is maritime tropical? (warm and moist) (mT)
This effect is what causes tornadoes and hurricanes to spin in the first place.
What is the Coriolis effect?
This is the direction weather systems move in the United States.
What is north east?
When the dew point and temperature are the same number, this occurs.
What is condensation?
To be classified as a hurricane instead of a tropical storm, this number needs to be high enough.
What is wind speed?
The side the shapes are on the map shows this about the front that formed.
What is the direction it is moving?
This is the direction wind moves in.
What is from high pressure to low pressure?
This is the name of two of the major greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, or water vapor?
These are used by weather reports to accurately show things such a temperature and precipitation in a local area.
What is a station model?
Hurricanes are found at the center of low pressure systems, so this is the direction wind flows.
What is inwards?
This front requires three air masses, where the cold fronts on the ends work together to squeeze and push out the warm air front in the middle.
What is an occluded front?
This term is used during the day on the beach to talk about the direction the wind is flowing.
What is a sea breeze?