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Weather And Climate (Humidity (Rain Rain is liquid water in the form of…
Weather And Climate
Humidity
Rain Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that evaporate into the atmosphere and precipitate back down.
Sleet Sleet is snow but is melts half way when its precipitates. it can also be decried as a slushy substance.
Snow Snow is rain but at the freezing point where when it precipitates it is a white flake. but when it hits the surface if its cold enough it might stick to the ground.
Freezing Rain Unlike sleet where its a mixture of rain and snow freezing rain is when surface temperatures are below freezing so instead of it being slushy its more like ice pellets.
Clouds
Cirrus Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus clouds are made up mostly of ice crystals.
Cumulus Clouds Cumulus clouds are puffy cotton candy like clouds that usually come 1000 meters of the ground and can develop into a thunderhead.
Nimbostratus Clouds Nimbostratus clouds are dark clouds they usually mean that its about to rain, snow, hail or any type of precipitation.
Cumulonimbus Cloud These cumulonimbus clouds types of clouds are the dense towering types. They are also called thunderheads because they usually means a type of storm is arriving
Fronts
Continental Tropical A continental tropical air mass or CT is a hot air mass that usually comes from the high plains of Mexico.
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Continental Polar This front is a cold air mass with little moisture. This type of air mass or front originates from cold countries like Canada.
Maritime Polar Maritime polar is a air mass are cool, moist and unstable. most of the maritime polar originate from asia and move over the Pacific Ocean where they collect warmth
Air Pressure
Hurricane A hurricane is a type of cyclone that forms over tropical or subtropical waters and can move over to other country's.
Tornadoes These types of storms are whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down to earths surface and can even form over water, but those are called waterspouts.
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Atmosphere There are six layers of the atmosphere, first there is the troposphere, then the stratosphere, the mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere and last but not least the exosphere .