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Air pressure

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The force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to earth

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Tropical

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A region of climate that is frost free with tempture high enough to supplie plant grouth

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Celsius

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Scale based on 0 for the freezing point of water and 100 for the booiling point of water

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Cumulus cloud

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Large white puffy clouds that generlly apear during fair weather

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Cirrus cloud

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Short detached hair like clouds found at high altitudes

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Thermomether

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An instrument that measures the temp

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Tropical depprison

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A tropical cyclone with maxium sustained winds of 38mph

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Ocean current

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The continuouses predictable direction movment of seawater driven by gravity wind

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Dew point

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The temp the air needs to be cooled to in order to achieve a relative humidity

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tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour or greater that is usually accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning, and that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes

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Hurricane

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a large, dry area where there is very little rain and few plants:

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Desert

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a tropical cyclone with the maximum wind of 34 knots or higher

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Typhoon

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the amount of water vapor in the air

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Humidity

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prophecy, estimate, or prediction of a future happening or condition

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Forecast

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a mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth

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Atomsphere

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precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow.

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Hail

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• A rain-bearing cloud that also produces lightning

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Thunderstorm

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a visible mass of particles of condensed vapor (such as water or ice) suspended in the atmosphere of a planet (such as the earth) or moon.

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Cloud

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any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth.

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Precipitation

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a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area.”

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Drought

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a weather system that is the boundary separating two different types of air

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Front

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the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including both weather and climate.

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Meteorologhy

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the temperature at which a liquid becomes a solid at normal atmospheric pressure

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Freezing point

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A violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm.

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Tornado

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menacing looking multi-level clouds, extending high into the sky in towers or plumes

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Cumulonimbus cloud

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the sound that follows a flash of lightning and is caused by sudden expansion of the air in the path of the electrical discharge.

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Thunder

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the state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place

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Weather

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whirling column of air and water mist

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Waterspout

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scientific instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure

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Barometer

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Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s surface observed since the pre-industrial period

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Globel warming

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calculated by averaging the temperature at the surface of the sea and air temperature over land.

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Temperature

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the measurement of air pressure in the atmosphere

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Barometr pressure

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tight rotating column of air (that is often the start of a tornado) that never reaches the ground

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Funnel cloud

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the average long-term changes over the entire Earth

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Climate