Weather Flashcards
Measures air pressure in the atmosphere
Barometer
You can predict the weather by looking at the clouds in the sky. Some clouds are formed high in the sky and look like feathers. They are white and made up of ice crystals. If you see these clouds in the sky you should expect a change in the weather.
Cirrus cloud
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
Climate
A visible mass of condinsed water vapor tipically high in the atmosphere
Cloud
Are prolonged periods of little or no rain. Lack of rain can affect us in many ways.
Drought
A dence e towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents
Cumulonimbus
are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton.
Cumulus cloud
The bowndery between two den similar air masses
Front
A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity
A tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles per hour or greater usually accompanied by rain thunder and lightning.
Hurricane
Air masses form over large areas that have similar weather. A front is the boundary along which two air masses meet or collide. Different types of fronts bring different characteristic weather conditions. Recording and studying weather patterns makes it possible for meteorologists to forecast the weather.
Meteorology
A storm with thunder and lightning and tipically rain and hail
Thunderstorm
A mobile destructive vortex of vilintly roatating winds having the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud advancing Beneth a weather system
Tornado
A force of molecules pushing down on an area
Air pressure
The state of the atmosphere at an place and time if regarded heat dryness sunshine wind rain and Ect.
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