Weather Vocabulary

3. stable, fair, weather conditions with clear skies.
4. displays various meteorological features across a particular area at a particular point in time and has various symbols which all have specific meanings.
7. large scale air currents that circulate throughout the Earth in a predictable pattern.
9. a boundary between a mass of warm air and the cooler air it is displacing.
11. circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
13. a weather front where two air masses meet, like warm air and cool air, and none are moving or advancing.
15. a weather forecaster.
17. a weather phenomenon that forms when a faster-moving cold front overtakes a slower-moving warm front.
18. the amount of water vapor present in the air.
19. used to measure air pressure.
20. often associated with cloudy, windy, and potentially rainy or snowy weather.

1. a fast, narrow current of air flowing from west to east that encircles the globe.
2. low-lying clouds often described as puffy cotton balls.
5. the downward movement of water through soil and rock.
6. the movement of heat through liquids and gases,
8. energy that travels from space or matter in the form of waves or particles.
10. Winds that reliably blow east to west just to the north and south of the equator.
12. a small group of two or more atoms that are joined together through chemical bonds.
14. an instrument that measures wind speed and wind pressure.
16. the boundary between a mass of cold, dense air and a mass of warmer, less dense air.