| A | B |
|---|
| cold front | brings severe weather |
| warm front | brings showers and then nice weather |
| occluded front | brings severe weather |
| stationary front | rain then nice weather |
| world meteorological organization | sends airports weather for station models twice daily |
| national weather service | issues severe weather |
| RADAR | identifies current precipitation and severity |
| satellite | gives us all weather information through all layers of the atmosphere |
| weather baloons | gives us weather info. for upper troposphere |
| station models | identify the weather for a particular city on a map |
| thunder | caused by the rapid expansion of air |
| isobars | lines of pressure that help determine air masses |
| lightning | positive and negative charges meeting |
| tornadoes | caused by cumulonimbus clouds creating circular wind patterns |
| hurricanes | form over oceans from two cumulonimbus clouds |
