This is the area where 2 types of air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
This type of air mass can bring warm and wet weather.
What is maritime tropical?
100
Clouds are identified by:
What is size and height?
100
This is the symbol for a cold front.
What is a blue line with triangles?
100
A sudden flow of electrons from a cloud to the ground or to another cloud.
What is lightning?
200
This type of front forms when cold air moves under warm air, and pushes the warm air up.
What is a cold front?
200
This type of air mass can bring cold and dry weather.
What is continental polar?
200
These clouds form at low altitudes and can predict fair weather, rain, or snow.
What is stratus?
200
This is the symbol for a warm front.
What is a red line with semi-circles?
200
A lightning bolt heats the air around it to such a high temperature that the air instantly expands. The quick expansion sends out a vibration or shock wave, which we hear as an explosion of sound.
What is thunder?
300
This type of front forms when warm air moves over colder air.
What is a warm front?
300
This type of air mass can bring hot and dry weather.
What is continental tropical?
300
These clouds are fluffy, white, and towering (the ones you can make figures out of). They are associated with fair weather or possible thunderstorms.
What is cumulus?
300
This the way a stationary front is labeled on a map.
What is alternating cold and warm front symbols?
300
Also known as twisters, whirlwinds, or waterspouts if over water. They form when a warm wind meets a cold wind and they start to move around each other creating a spinning vortex.
What is a tornado?
400
This type of front forms when a cold and warm air mass meet but neither has enough strength to lift the other out of the way.
What is a stationary front?
400
This type of air mass can bring cool and wet weather.
What is maritime polar?
400
These clouds are high in altitude, thin, white, and feathery looking. They are associated with fair and sunny weather, but can sometimes indicate an approaching storm.
What is cirrus?
400
Purple line with triangles and semi-circles.
What is an occluded front?
400
a powerful, rotating storm with thunder, lightning and rain.
What is a hurricane? Typhoon? Cyclone?
500
This type of front forms when a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses.
What is an occluded front?
500
This type of air mass can bring extremely cold temperatures and very little moisture.
What is continental arctic?
500
These are the 3 prefixes that help determine other types of clouds.
What is cirro, alto, and strato?
Cirro = high clouds
Alto = middle level clouds
Strato = low clouds
500
How is it determined what side of the line the symbols go on in order to represent the front?
What is the direction the front is moving?
500
a rotating cone-shaped column of air extending downward from the base of a thunderstorm, but not touching the ground.