Weather Vocab Flashcards
Humidity
a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas.
Cumulus Cloud
clouds which have flat bases and are often described as puffy or fluffy in appearance.
Stratus Cloud
low-level layers with a fairly uniform grey or white color.
Cirrus Cloud
short, detached, hair-like clouds found at high altitudes
Cumulonimbus Cloud
menacing looking multi-level clouds, extending high into the sky in towers or plumes
Condensation
water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
Evaporation
the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor
Runoff
a further competition, election, race, etc., after a tie or inconclusive result.
Rain
moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
Sleet
a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
Snow
atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
Hail
pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
Polar – Maritime Airmass
the most common air mass to affect the British Isles.
Tropical – Maritime Airmass
warm and moist in its lowest layers
Polar – Continental Airmass
This air mass has its origins over the snow fields of Eastern Europe and Russia and is only considered a winter (November to April) phenomena
