Scioly Meteorology

a periodic disturbance in the fields of atmospheric variables (like surface pressure or geopotential height, temperature, or wind velocity) which may either propagate (traveling wave) or not (standing wave)

• jet stream

• dry line

• atmospheric wave

• atmospheric stability

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

a measure of the atmospheres tendency to discourage or deter vertical motion, and vertical motion is directly correlated to different types of weather systems and severity

• atmospheric stabilize

• atmospheric stability

• atmospheric wave

• temperature

a boundary that separates a moist air mass from a dry air mass

• dry line boundary

• dry line

• line dry

• wind hahhahahaha

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere

• jet stream

• a BIG gust of wind

• tornado

• windmill

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a thunderstorm is a storm with.....

• lightning

• thunder

• lightning and thunder

• rain and hail

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

a thunderstorm is formed by a....

• cirrus cloud

• stratus cloud

• nimbostratus cloud

• cumulonimbus cloud

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a reference to a relatively weak thunderstorm

• air mass thunderstorm

• weak storm

• hurricane

• bigger thunderstorm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

storms produce hail, strong winds, brief tornadoes and or flooding....

• multicell

• super cell

• big cell

• cell storm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

long lived and highly organized storm feeding off an updraft that is tilted and rotating

• multicell

• supercell

high altitude, thin, and wispy cloud streaks made of ice crystals

• stratus

• cumulus

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• cirrus