Weather Patterns Vocabulary

Comes from the ocean

Comes from the far northern or far southern parts of earth

Comes from warm areas toward the equator

Comes from the land

A storm characterized by cumulonimbus clouds, lighting and thunder, commonly with heavy rainfall, strong winds and sometimes hail.

Violent windstorm of a rotating column of air called a vortex extending downward from a cumulonimbus cloud.

A center of high air pressure and clear weather with winds blowing clockwise outward and downward

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather with winds blowing counterclockwise inward and upward

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms between 30 and 69 degrees latitude

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms over warm ocean water between the equator and 30 degrees latitude in the Atlantic Ocean and has winds stronger than 119 km/he

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms over warm ocean water between the equator and 30 degrees latitude in the PACIFIC Ocean and has winds stronger than 119 km/hr

A center of low air pressure and stormy weather that forms over warm ocean water between the equator and 30 degrees latitude

Warm and dry air mass

Warm and wet air mass

Cold and dry air mass

Cold and wet air mass

Line on a map with equal temperature

Line on a map with equal air pressure

Scientist who studies weather

A large body of air with similar temperature and amounts of moisture

Boundary between two air masses

Boundary between two air masses that does not move

Boundary between two air masses in which warm air is trapped between two masses of cold air and is pushed upward with heavy precipitation

Boundary between two air masses in which cold air moves into an area and replaces warm air