Weather Maps and Air Pressure

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Weather Balloon

A balloon released into the atmosphere that carries a package of instruments to record data about temperature, air pressure, and humidity.

Stationary Front

A boundary between air masses that don't move possibly causing rain for several days

Front

A boundary between two air masses

Cold Front

A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.

Air Masses

A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout it is called an air mass.I

low pressure

A mass of rising warm air that usually bring wet, stormy weather.

high pressure

A mass of sinking cool air that usually bring fair weather.

Warm Front

a front where warm air moves over cold air and brings drizzly rain and then are followed by warm and clear weather

meteorolgist

scientists who study and try to predict weather

Atmospheric pressure

the pressure caused by the weight of the atmosphere

Compass Rose

A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) and intermediate (NE,SE,NW,SW) directions.

Barometer

An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure

Thermometer

An instrument used to measure temperature

Anemometer

An instrument used to measure wind speed

Isobars

Lines joining places on the map that have the same air pressure

air pressure

The measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface

Dew Point

The temperature at which condensation begins

Weather

Weather is the mix of events that happen each day in our atmosphere. Weather is different in different parts of the world and changes over minutes, hours, days and weeks. Most weather happens in the troposphere, the part of Earth's atmosphere that is closest to the ground.

Back Door Front

a front coming front the east

Occluded Front

a front where a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses and brings cool temperatures and large amounts of rain and snow

Wind Vane

measures wind direction

Weather Station Symbols

name all the information you can get for my weather station symbol


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