Weather Vocabulary

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An instrument used to measure the direction that wind is COMING FROM.

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Wind Vane

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An instrument used to measure air pressure.

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Barometer

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An instrument that uses a wet and dry bulb to measure relative humidity.

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Psychrometer

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An instrument used to measure wind speed.

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Anemometer

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The pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years.

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Climate

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Narrow bands of high speed winds near the top of the Troposphere that move West to East.

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Jet Stream

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How heat energy travels in waves through empty space.

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Radiation

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This leads to clear skies and sunny days.

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High Pressure System

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Where air masses meet and produce different kinds of weather.

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Less dense warmer air mass slides over departing colder air.

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Warm Front