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Weather
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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air mass | A body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure. |
front | A weather front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena. |
Tornado | A destructive, violently rotating winds having a appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system. |
Hurricane | A storm with violent winds. |
Blizzard | A severe storm with high winds and low visibility. |
meteorologist | A expert in weather |
station model | A finding number of weather element in a small area on weather maps. |
isotherm | A line on a map connecting points having the same TEMPERATURE at a given time or on average over a given period. |
isobar | A line on a map connecting points having the same ATMOSPHERIC pressure at a given time or on average over a given period. |