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weather tools clouds

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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
status clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky
nimbus a rain clouds
fog a status cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew points near the ground
anemometer an instrument used to measure wind speed
wind vane an instrument used to measure temperature
thermometer an instrument used to measure temperatures
sling psychrometer tool made of wet and dry thermometer that measures relative humidity and requiers a table to interprept the tow tempertures
barometer an instrument that measures atmospheric pressures
rain gauge an instrument used to measures precipatation
weather map a map that uses symbols to show weather data
weather satellight type of satalight that is primaley used to moniter the weather and climate of the earth
weather radar is an instrument that send pulse of electromagnet energy into the atmospere to find precepatation determine its motion and intensity and identify precipatation type such as rain snow or hail
isober line on a map conecting points having the same barometer reading at a givin time
isotherm a line on a weather map that joins places that have the same tempertures
cumbus are thunderstorms clouds high wind can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil like shapes cumulonbius clouds are associated with heavy rain snow hail lighning and even the anvil usally points in the direction the storm is moveing
relative humidity the amount of water vapor in the air at any given time is usally less that required to saturate the air expressed as a persentege
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