Weather Patterns
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| Air Mass | A huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout
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| Maritime | A humid air mass that forms over oceans
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| Occluded | Cut off, as the warm air mass at an occluded front is cut off from the ground by cooler air beneath it
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| Tropical | A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure
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| Continental | A dry air mass that forms over land
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| Cyclone | A swirling center of low air pressure
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| Polar | A cold air mass that forms north of 50° north latitude or south of 50° south latitude and has high pressure
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| Front | The air where air masses meet and do not mix
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| Anticyclone | A high-pressure center of dry air
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| Storm | A violent disturbance in the atmosphere
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| Tornado | A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path
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| Storm Surge | A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands
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| Lightning | A sudden spark, or energy discharge, caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a cloud or between a cloud and the ground
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| Hurricane | A tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher; typically about 600 kilometers across
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| Evacuate | To move away temporarily
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| Flash Flood | A sudden, violent flood
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| Meteorologist | Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it
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| El Nino | An event that occurs every two to seven years in the Pacific Ocean, during which winds shift and push warm surface water towards the coast of South America; it can cause dramatic climate changes
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| Isobar | Lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure
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| Isotherm | Lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature
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