weather vocab
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| weather | the condition of earths atmosphere at a particular time and place
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| meteorologist | scientists who study the cause of weather and try to predict it
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| forecast | a prediction of what the weather will be in the future
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| temperature | the average of the amount of wate vapor in the air
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| relative humidity | a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the maxium amount the air can hold at that temperature
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| wind | the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure
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| cumulus | clouds that form less than 2 kilometers above the ground and look like fluffy rounded piles of cotten
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| stratus | clouds that form in flat layers
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| cirrus | wispy feathery clouds made mostly of ice crystails that form at high levels above about 6 kilometers
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| thermometer | an insrtument ised to relitve humidity consisting of a thin glass tube with a bulb at one end that contains liquid
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| anemometer | an insrment used to measure wind speed
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| pyschrometer | an instrument used to relative humidity consisting of a wet bulb thermometr and a dry bulb thermometer
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| air mass | a huge body of air that has similar temperature pressure and humidity throughout
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| front | the aerea where air masses meet and do not mix
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| cold front | when cold air mass pushes against a warm air masses
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| warm front | when warm air masses pushes against cold air masses
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| tornado | a rapidly whirling funnel sheaped cloud that reaches down from a cloud to touch earth surfaces usullay leaving a destructive path
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| hurrican | a tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher typically about 600 kilometers across
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