Atmosphere and Severe Weather

Severe Weather is

• Really rainy with lots of dark clouds

• Dangerous and causes damage

• Only happens once a year

• Never happens

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Produces rapidly rising air currents, usually resulting in heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning.

• Thunder and Lightning

• Thunderstorms

• Windstorms

• Blizzard

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Severe storms with low temperatures, strong winds, and large amounts of snow.

• Windstorm

• Snowstorm

• Blizzard

• Thunderstorm

Less than normal precipitation over a long period of time.

• Flood

• Blizzard

• Hail

• Drought

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Occurs when water overflows the natural or artificial banks of a stream or other body of water.

• Flood

• Hurricane

• Blizzard

• Thunder and Lightning

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Precipitation in the form of balls of ice

• Rain

• Sleet

• Hail

• Snow

Rapidly rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground.

• Windstorm

• Drought

• Tornado

• Hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Strong straight-line winds occur that are not directly connected with thunderstorms, tornadoes, or hurricanes.

• Thunderstorms

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Windstorm

Wind systems that rotate around an eye, or center of low atmospheric pressure.

• Hurricane

• Drought

• Tornado

• Thunderstorms

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Heavy rainfall over a short period of time or large amounts of snow melting quickly can cause

• Droughts

• Blizzards

• Floods

• Hurricanes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2