Weather Vocabulary List #2

6. The study of the earth’s atmosphere and what happens in it.
7. A prediction of the weather conditions for a given area and a given time period.
10. Created when liquid water turns into a gas form due to heat.
14. A storm with very strong winds. They form over warm oceans causing wind damage and flooding.
15. A funnel shaped storm with strong winds. They form in warm moist air and cool dry air meet causing wind damage and debris.
16. The boundary where different air masses collide.
18. A whirling mass of cool, dry air that generally brings fair weather and light winds.
20. Global winds that blow constantly from the same
21. The lower layer of the atmosphere. All weather occurs here
22. Unusual cold and dry weather to the Pacific Coast.
23. A warm ocean current from the Gulf of Mexico. Warms the east coast of the U.S and parts of Europe.
25. A storm with thunder, lightning, and heavy rain. They form during a cold front or when there is moisture in unstable air causing flooding from heavy rain and fires from lightning.

1. Where a cold front catches up to and overtakes a warm front.
2. A narrow air current in the atmosphere. Moves weather in the US from West to East.
3. A whirling mass of warm, moist air that generally brings stormy weather with strong winds.
4. Clouds that form at ground level.
5. Any liquid or solid form of water that falls from the
8. The imaginary line drawn around the middle of the earth.
9. When a cold and a warm air mass meet, but neither moves.
11. such as rain, snow, hail, or sleet.
12. The movement of air caused by earth’s uneven heating of the land surfaces. It moves from high pressure to low pressure.
13. A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
17. Unusual warm and wet weather to the Pacific Coast.
19. A person who studies meteorology.
24. The layer of air that surrounds the earth.