Air Pressure - The weight of air pressing down on earth.
Anticyclone - A high-pressure system that moves in the oppisite direction of a cyclone, they normally bring sunny skies.
Atmosphere - A layer of gases surrounding a planet.
Barometric Pressure - It’s the same as air pressure.
Blizzard - An intense winter storm with winds of 35 m.p.h. or higher, with fallin or blowing snow that can reduce your ability to see around you.
Breeze - A light wind.
Cirrus Clouds - Thin, feathery clouds that form high up in the atmosphere as their water vapor freezes into ice crystals.
Clear Sky - when there are no clouds in the sky.
Condensation - The change from water vapor to liquid water.
Cyclone - A low pressure system. Usually described as tornadoes, water spouts, dust storms, hurricanes or any other type of strong wind.
Dew - Water that forms on objects such as grass, leaves or other objects close to the ground when its temperature falls below the dew point of the surface air.
Drizzle - Light rain made up of tiny rain droplets.
El Niño - the unusual warming of Earths surface waters, that can have major effects on weather all across the globe.
Flash Flood - Sudden flooding that occurs when floodwaters rise quickly with no warning after several houirs of intense rain.
Front - A boundary between two different air masses, resulting in stormy weather.
Funnel Cloud - A tornado that doesn’t reach the ground.
Greenhouse Effect - The heating effect of the Earth's atmosphere.
Hail - A combination of liquid and frozen precipitation formed when rain drops freeze in a clouid and bounce up and down and layers form.
Humidity - The amount of water vapor in the air.
Relative Humidity - the ratio of how much water vapor is in the air compared to how much it can hold.
Temperature- measure of how hot or cold something is.
Thermometer - The instrument that measures temperature.
Water Vapor - It’s a gas in the atmosphere.
Weather - condition of the air at a particular time and place.
