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Weather Patterns
Term | Definition |
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Cold Front | When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow moving warm air mass. |
Warm Front | When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass. |
Stationary Front | When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other. |
Occluded Front | Where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses. |
Storm | A violent disturbance in the atmosphere. |
Tornado | A funnel shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface. |
Hurricane | A long-lasting storm that starts over the warm surface of the ocean and has winds of 119 km or higher. |
Flash Floods | Sudden, violent floods that occur shortly after a storm. |
Meteorologist | A scientist that studies weather and tries to predict it. |
Isotherms | Lines on a map joining places with the same temperature. |
Isobars | Lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure. |
Front | The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not easily mix. |