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Ch 19-21 Weather pt 1

Across
Latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees
Large rotating tropical storms
Winds that change seasonally and bring moisture to produce thunder storms
Used by merchants to sail by; warm and relatively steady in speed and direction
A scale used to rate the size of hurricanes
Where air pressure steadily decreases towards the center
Lines of thunderstorms that form along a frontal boundary
Predominant wind
Used to depict large amounts of information regarding weather in a local area
Winter storms producing heavy snow
Storms that form in the mid-latitudes that contain lighting, thunder, rain and hail
A violent rotating column of air
Discharge of electricity in and during a thunderstorm
Down
Bands of swiftly moving wind at the top of the troposphere (120 to 240 km)
Where air pressure steadily increases towards the center
Boundaries of moving cold and warm air masses
The weight of the air as it pushes on the surface of the Earth.
A boundary at 60deg N/S latitudes where cold polar air collides with warm air
Closely spaced isobars where the pressure divided by distance produces a map
An effect where an object tends to move freely away from its intended path
Domes of water produced by the strong winds from the eye wall; also called blow water
Large body of air in the troposphere
Large singular cell thunderstorms that produce strong updrafts
An area's long term weather pattern
Lines formed by positions of a map where the air pressure is the same
Inter-tropical convergence zone; where the surface winds of the north and south hemisphere come together