Weather Words

2. atmospheric moisture
5. the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular at the trailing edge of the warm sector of the pressure system.
7. pressure: the pressure exerted by the weight of the atmosphere.
10. process where heat is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature.
12. a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation, carbon dioxide, and chlorofluorocarbon
14. the atmospheric temperature below which water droplets begin to converse and dew can form.
15. a colorless unstable toxic gas formed from oxygen by electrical discharges or ultraviolet light.
16. a whirling mass of warm moist air that generally brings stormy weather and strong winds.
18. an effect by where a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force to the direction of motion to the axis rotation.
20. the distance one can see determined by light and weather conditions.

1. the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
3. the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high energy particles.
4. a line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time.
6. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object.
8. a whirling mass of cool dry air that generally brings fair weather and light winds.
9. a quantity expressing the effective lowering of the air temperature caused by the wind.
11. the average speed of wind over a 10 minute period at more then 10 feet above sea level.
13. a narrow, variable band of very strong predominately westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
17. movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity.
19. a quantity expressing the discomfort felt as a result of the combined effects of a temperatures humidity.