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| The general condition of the atmosphere | Weather
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| The amount of water vapor in the air | Humidity
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| A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air compared | Relative Humidity
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| The temerature when air is saturated and condensation forms | Dew Point
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| This forms when the aie is cooled to its dew point | Fog
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| water falling from the clouds | Precipitation
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| This measures wind speed | Anemometer
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| the formation of liquid water from water vapor | Condensation
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| This is made up from billions of water droplets suspended in air | Cloud
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| forms layers & at low altitudes | Stratus
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| puffy white clouds and have flat bases. Sometimes means thunderstorms or fair weather | Cumulus
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| fibrous or curly; high and thin, white feathery clouds made of ice crystals. Fair weather or approaching storms | Cirrus
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| associated with rain or snow | Nimbus
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| this is a cloud that is tall and dense and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather | Cumulonimbus
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| water passes through freezing air near the earths surface | Sleet
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| pellets of ice form inside a cloud | Hail
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| large bodies of air with properties similar to the part of the Earth's surface over which droplets (temperature & moisture) | Air mass
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| bonndaries between 2 air masses of different density | Front
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| a violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over LAND | Tornado
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| the most powerful storm it turns heat energy from the OCEAN into wind | Hurricane
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| winter storm with high winds, low temperature and poor visibility | Blizzard
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| the person who studys weather | Meterorologist
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| this is a combination of symbols that represents the data that meterorologist gather from the Earths surface | Station Model
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| a line that connnects locations of equal temperature | Isotherm
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| a line drawn to connects points of equal atmospheric pressure | Isobar
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