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Weather Glossary and Terms



Anemometer - A meteorological instrument used to measure wind speed.

Barometer - A meteorological instrument used to measure the atmospheric pressure.

Blizzard - A snow storm that has winds of 35 miles per hour or more.

Climate - A pattern of weather in a region as measured over a long period of time.

Cloud - A mass of tiny water droplets floating in the atmosphere that we can see from the ground.

Cold front - A front where cold air is replacing warm air.

Coriolis effect - The effect that the Earth's rotation has on objects on Earth such as prevailing winds and ocean currents.

Depression - An area of low atmospheric pressure that is surrounded by clouds and precipitation.

Dew - Drops of water that comes from water vapor condensing on objects near the ground.

El Nino - A period of warming in the water of the Pacific Ocean near the equator.

Eye - The center of a tropical cyclone or hurricane where there is low air pressure, no clouds, and calm winds.

Flash flood - A flash flood is a flood that happens quickly (just a few hours), usually due to heavy rain.

Fog - A cloud that is low to the ground and makes it hard to see.

Front - The boundary between low and high air pressure systems.

Hail - Hail is a type of precipitation in the form of lumps of ice. It is formed in the updrafts of large thunderstorms.

High-pressure system - A region with high air pressure and cool, dry air.

Humidity - A measurement of the amount of water vapor in the air.

Hurricane - A tropical cyclone that formed in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Ice storm - An ice storm occurs when rain falls on objects and then freezes. The weight of the ice can cause damage, causing trees and power lines to fall.

Isobar - A line on a weather map that represents a given barometric pressure. All points on the line, or isobar, have the same barometric pressure.

Knot - A measure of speed most often used in the ocean. One knot equals 1.15 miles per hour.

Jet Stream - A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere.

La Nina - When the waters near the equator in the Pacific Ocean cool down.

Low-pressure system - A region with low air pressure and warm, moist air.

Meteorology - The study of the Earth's atmosphere.

Precipitation - Precipitation occurs when the condensation of water vapor causes it to fall to the Earth's surface. It can occur in many forms including rain, sleet, snow, and hail.

Prevailing winds - Winds that blow fairly consistently in the same direction over a particular area of the Earth's surface.

Rain - Precipitation that falls to the ground in the form of liquid droplets.

Snow - Frozen precipitation that falls to the ground when water vapor is turned into ice.

Squall - A sudden increase in sustained winds over a short time period.

Storm surge - A rise in the sea level at the coastline due to a huge storm such as a hurricane.

Supercell - A very large and long-lived thunderstorm.

Thunderstorm - A storm that produces thunder and lighting. It usually also generates high winds and rain.

Tornado - A rotating column of air with high wind speeds that makes contact with the ground.

Tropical cyclone - A large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in the ocean.

Typhoon - A tropical cyclone that formed in Southeast Asia.

Warm front - A front where warm air is replacing cold air.

Water vapor - The gas phase of water.

Wind - Wind is the movement or flow of air on a large scale.



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