Step in the water cycle that forms clouds?
What are condensation?
Boundary between 2 air masses.
What is a front?
When pacific ocean is warmer than normal bringing wetter and warmer conditions to NC.
What is a El Nino?
When water gains energy and turns into water vapor
What is evaporation?
What is most responsible for the day to to weather changes in our area.
What is a Prevailing Westerlies?
When water vapor loses energy and turns back into droplets.
What is condensation?
Causes land temperatures along the coast to be milder in the winter
What is a Gulf Stream.
Clouds that look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest in the sky.
What is stratus?
When water gains energy and leaves through a plant?
What is transpiration?
Could affect weather conditions by making it warmer or cooler than normal.
What is a Jet Stream?
Clouds that produce rain and thunder.
What is cumulonimbus?
What is middle of the day/afternoon when the sun is out?
On a June day, a warm, moist air mass slowly passes over a colder air mass in North Carolina. What will most likely happen next?
Warm front - rain and then warmer temperatures?
The unusual cooling of water in the Pacific Ocean
La Nina?