Cyclonic Weather
What types of weather are cyclonic?
Hurricanes
Tornado
What is a thermometer and name the 3 scales it uses?
Instrument that measures temperature.
Celsius
Fahrenheit
Kelvin
Where do our clouds form in the Atmosphere? The layer...
Troposphere
What are the atmospheric variables?
Temperature, Air pressure, air currents, wind, sea breeze, land breeze.
What is an air mass?
Characteristics of the air identified by Temperature and moisture. Get their names from the source region in which they form.
What is the scale used to classify hurricanes?
Saffir-Simson Scale
What is a barometer used to measure?
Air Pressure
What is a cloud?
Minute droplets of water, water vapor, ice crystals
When the wind blows it moves from areas of....
high pressure to low pressure.
What is a source region?
Location which an air mass gets it characteristics.
What direction does the hurricane rotate?
Counterclockwise and inward
Convert 1004.0 millibars to Inches of Hg
29.65 inches of Hg
What does R.E.C.C stand for?
Rise, Expands, Cools, Condenses
Seabreeze blows from where to where and why?
DURING THE DAY LAND HEATS UP FASTER THAN THE WATER, THUS CREATING A LOW PRESSURE ZONE OVER THE LAND. Sea to land breeze
Name the air masses and explain where they form and their temperature?
Air Masses cA cP cT mT mP continental arctic continental polar continental tropical maritime tropical maritime polar
What is a Storm surge?
A DOME OF WATER 40 TO 60 MILES LONG THAT MOVES ONTO SHORE NEAR THE LANDFALL POINT OF THE HURRICANE
What does an anemometer measure? And which way does the head face?
Used to measure wind direction and speed. The head faces in the direction the wind is coming from.
What cloud is a high level wispy looking cloud made of ice crystals?
Cirrus
AIR PRESSURE ---Blank------ AS YOU INCREASE YOUR ELEVATION.
Fill in the blank
DECREASES
What happens at a stationary front and what is the symbol used for that front?
FORMS ALONG A BOUNDARY WHERE NEITHER AIR MASS IS MOVING. Long widespread rain.
What is a tornado?
A ROTATING COLUMN OF AIR RANGING IN WIDTH FROM A FEW YARDS TO MORE THAN A MILE AND WHIRLING AT DESTRUCTIVELY HIGH WINDS
Use the sling psychrometer and measure the Relative humidity of the classroom right now.
Answers will vary
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
VERTICALLY DEVELOPED • SOURCE OF LIGHTNING, THUNDER AND HAIL • EXIST AS INDIVIDUAL TOWERS, OR A LINE OF TOWERS AND SPREAD OUT LIKE AN ANVIL
What is air?
AIR IS A MIXTURE OF GASES WITH MOLECULES THAT ARE FAST MOVING AND FAR APART
Describe what happens in a cold front vs a warm front?
Cold front the cold air is advancing
Warm front the warm air is advancing.
In both cases the warm air will go above the cold air because it is less dense.
Cloud formation at the boundaries because the warm air is R.E.C.C.