Weather Maps and Air Pressure
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
