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weather tools/clouds
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cumulus | puffy with flat bottoms and round tops that signal fair weather |
| cirrus | wispy feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels |
| stratus | clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much f the sku |
| nimbus | a rain cloud |
| fog | a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled its dew point near the ground |
| anemoneter | an instrumeant used to measure wind speed |
| wind vane | an instrumeant used to measure wind dierection |
| thremometer | an instrumeant used to measure tempature |
| slimp psyhcometer | tool made of a wet and dry thremoeter that measures relative humdity and requires a table to interept the two tmeps |
| barometer | an instrumeant that measures atmosphicereic pressure |
| rain gauge | an instrumeant used to measure precipitation |
| weather map | a map that uses symbols to show weather data |
| weather satilite | type of satilite that is primaryll used to monitor the weather and |
| weather radar | is an istrmeant that sends pulses of elctromagnetic energy into the atmosphere to find precipitation ,determine its motion and intensity and identify the precipitation type such as rain snow or hail |
| isobar | line on a map connecting points having the same barometric reading at a given time |
| isotherm | a line on a weather map that joins places that have the sane temp |
| cumuloninimbus | are thunderstrom clouds high winds can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil-like shape cumuloninimbus clouds are associated with heavy rain,snow hail,lighting and even tornadoes the anvil usally points in the dierection the strom is moving |
| relative humidity | the amount of water vapor in air at any given time is usually less than that required to saturate the air expressed as a percentage |