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Weather

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Weather The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
Meteorologists Sicentist whos study the cause of weather and try to predict it.
Forecast A prediction of what the weather will be in the future.
Tempeture The average amount of enegry of motin in the molecules of a substance.
Convection The trasnfer of heat by movement of a liquid.
Humidity A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
Relative Humidity The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maxium amount the air canb hold at it's temputure.
Wind The horizontal movement of air from a area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
Cumulus Clouds that form leaa than 2 kilometers above the ground and look like fluffy rounded piles of cotton.
Stratus Clouds that form in flat layers.
Cirrus Wispy feathery clouds made of mostly ice cystals that form at high levels above about 6 kilometers.
Thermometer An instrument used to measure tempure consiting of a thin glass tube witha bulb on one end that contains a liquid.
Anemometer An instrument used to measure wind speed.
Psychrometer An instrument used to measure relative humidity consisting of a wet bulb thermometer and a dry bulb thermeter.
Air Mass A huge body of air that has simular tem pressure an humidity thoughout.
Front The area where air masses meet and do not mix.
Cold Front When cold air mass pushes aganist a warm air mass.
Warm Front When warm air mass pushes agansist a cold air mass.
Tornado A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earth's surface ussaly leaving a destructive path.
Hurricane Atropical storm that has wind of 119km per hour or higher typically about 600 km across.
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