Weather Forecasting
Across
- 5. A temperature at which water starts to condense out of a particular air mass.
- 6. Located poleward of 60 degrees north and south.
- 8. A boundary between two air masses moving so that the warmer air replaces the cooler air.
- 9. A combination of two fronts that form when a cold front catches up and overtakes a warm front.
- 10. It detects precipitation intensity, wind direction and speed, and provides estimates of hail size and rainfall amounts.
- 12. A type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.
- 15. An elongated area of relatively low pressure that brings cloudy and rainy weather.
Down
- 1. A boundary between two air masses moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air.
- 2. Located over the oceans.
- 3. Located within about 25 degrees of the equator.
- 4. A boundary between two air masses that more or less doesn’t move, but can wobble back and forth for several hundred miles a day.
- 7. An electronic instrument that determines the direction and distance of objects that reflect radio energy back to the _____ site.
- 11. Located over large land masses, dry.
- 13. An extremely large body of air whose properties of temperature and moisture content are fairly similar in any horizontal direction.
- 14. The amount of water vapor in the air.