Weather Flashcards
Air mass
a body of air with horizontally uniform
Continental polar
Wet and dry
CP
Maritime polar
Wet and cold
MP
Maritime tropical
Warm and wet
MT
Continental tropical
Dry and warm
CT
Front
boundary separating two masses of air
Warm front
A warm front is a front that brings warm weather probably with week of drizzling weather with cloudy skies it over takes the cold air
Cold front
A front hat b rings cold weather and gray skies with thunderstorms and slips under the warm air
Occluded front
When the weather goes into a pattern and and its ether warm air for a moment and then cold
Stationary front
A front were the weather is even with cold and warm air
Wind vane
Measures wind
Rain gauge
Measures rain
Thermometer
Measures temperature
Hygrometer
Measures moisture
Barometer
Measures air pressure