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Forms of Precipitation

Forms of Precipitation

What cloud is it?

What cloud is it?

What’s the Forecast?What’s the Forecast?

Weather Terms

Weather Terms

Weather Factors

Weather Factors

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This factor of weather is the source of all changes we have in the weather.

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What is the sun?

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This factor of weather can cause dents in cars,

rubber boots to be worn or chair lifts to begin to run.

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What is precipitation?

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This factor of weather will cause the anemometer

reading to change.

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What is wind?

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This factor of weather can fool people into

not putting on sunscreen, and then

they still get quite burnt.

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What is cloud cover?

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This factor of weather will cause the reading on a

psychrometer to change.

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What is relative humidity?

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Round or irregular lumps of ice formed by

movement of ice through super cooled moisture in

the upper parts of cumulonimbus clouds.

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What is hail?

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Moisture in the air that condenses forming

droplets of water that eventually fall to the earth.

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What is rain?

Daily Double

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A form of precipitation that comes in the form of flakes.

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What is snow?

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Super cooled rain that freezes onto cold surfaces

upon contact.

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What is sleet?

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Very fine rain consisting of drops less than 0.5 mm

in diameter.

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What is a drizzle?

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What is stratus?

Daily Double

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What is cirrus?

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What is cumulus?

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What is cumulus?

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What is cirrus?

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A few scattered cumulus clouds.

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What is good, fair, & warm weather?

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The barometer reading is dropping.

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What is the weather is going to be bad?

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A low pressure system has moved into the area.

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What is precipitation will likely fall, even stormy weather could occur?

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A high pressure system has moved into the area.

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What is clear skies and good weather will likely

happen?

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The barometer reading is staying the same.

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What is the weather conditions are likely to

stay the same?

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The movement of air along the ground.

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What is wind?

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A measure of the amount of moisture in the air.

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What is a humidity?

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The boundary between a warm and cold air mass.

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What is a front?

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The amount of heat in a substance. Expressed in degrees of Fahrenheit or

Centigrade (Celsius).

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What is temperature?

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The circulation of air or a liquid due to heating.

Warm air rises and cooler air moves in to take it’s

place.

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What is convection?