Science weather
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- station model
- indicates weather conditions at specific locations using a combonation of symbols on a map
- stratus
- form at low altitudes, associated with fair weather, snow
- dew point
- temperatures at which the air is saturated and condensation forms
- tornado
- violent, whirling windstorm that crosses the land into a narrow path
- weather
- the state of atmosphere at a specific time and place
- anemeter
- a piece of equiptment that measures wind
- blizzard
- winter sorm that lasts at least three hours with low temperatures
- air mass
- a large body of air that has the same characteristics of temperature and moist content
- circus
- high and feathery, made of ice crystals
- front
- boundary between two air masses with different things
- isotherm
- line drawn on a weather map that connects equal temperatures
- meterologist
- studies weather and uses information from instruments such as doppler radar and ect. to forcast
- humidity
- amount of water vapor in the air
- how clouds form
- form when warm air is forced upward, expands and cools
- isobar
- lines on a weather map that connect points where there is equal atmosheric pressure
- wind vane
- a piece of equiptment that tells you the direction of the wind
- barometer
- a piece of equiptment that measures pressure
- fog
- a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground
- hurricane
- large, severe storm that forms over tropical oceans
- precipitation
- water falling from the clouds including rain, sleet, snow and hail determined by the air temperature
- relative humidity
- measure of the amount of moisture held in the air compared with the amount it can hold at any given temperature
- cumulous
- masses of puffy white clouds at high altitudes associated with fair weather, thunder