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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cumulus | puffy with flat bottoms and round tops that signal fair weather |
| cirrus | wispy, feathery clouds made of ice cyrstals that form at high levels |
| strauts | clouds that form in flat layers that often cover much of the sky |
| nimbus | a rain cloud |
| fog | a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground |
| anemonter | an intersunment used to measure wind speed |
| wind vane | instrument used to measure wind direction |
| thermometer | an instrument use to measure tempeture |
| sling psychrometer | tool made of a wet and dry therometer that measures ralitive humidity and requires a table to interpret the two tempertures |
| barometer | an insturment that measures atmospheric pressure |
| rain gauge | an instrument used to measure precipation |
| wheather map | a map that uses sympoels to show wheter data |
| weather satellites | type of satellite that is primrely used to monetor the weather and climete of the earth |
| weather radar | is an instrument that sends pulces of electromagnetic energy into the atmosphere to find preciption, deterimne its motion and intensity and identfy the preciptipon type such as rain snow or hail |
| losbar | line on a map connectig points having the same barometric reading at a given time |
| isotherm | a line on a map a weather map that joins places that have the same temputure |
| cumulonimbus | are tunder clouds high winds can flaten the top of the cloud into an anvil like shape. cumulonimbus clouds are associated with heavy rain, snow, hail, lightning and evan tornados the anvil usally points in the direction the storm is moving |
| relative humidty | the amout of water vapor in the air at any given time is usally less then that requierd to saturate the air. expressed as a precentge |