Weather Terms

6. "Cloud type that appears as puffy masses and often look like cotton balls, “heap” or “pile”, usually appear in the daytime in fair weather but if they keep growing taller can produce rain showers and thunderstorms."
8. " Cloud type that appears feathery or wispy, “curl of hair”, form in very high altitudes and made of ice crystals."
9. "A storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail."
10. "Cloud type that forms in flat layers when air cools over a large area, “spread out”, tend to produce steady, light precipitation."
11. "fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants."
13. "The forward edge of an advancing mass of warm air that rises over and replaces a retreating mass of cooler air, cause steady precipitation."
14. "violently destructive windstorm occurring over land and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris."

1. "an instrument used to measure humidity."
2. "Clouds that produce precipitation;Ex: stratonimbus or cumulonimbus."
3. "Rainfall made acidic by atmospheric pollution."
4. "A violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour."
5. "a device that measure wind direction."
7. "Is a large volume of air in the atmosphere that is mostly uniform in temperature and moisture."
8. "The forward edge of an advancing mass of cold air that pushes under a mass of warm air, cause heavy precipitation and/or thunderstorms."
12. "An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure."