People who study the weather.

Low to mid-level clouds. They are big, white, and puffy. They usually mean good weather unless they grow really tall and turn into storm clouds.

A huge rotating storm with high speed winds that form over warm waters in tropical waters.

high level clouds that are thin and wispy. They appear during good weather

They are dark and gray, they usually carry rain or snow.

is created when small droplets of water are caught up in the updraft of a Thunderstorm. When the water droplets are lifted higher, they freeze into ice. Then once they are too heavy, they fall to the ground.

Forms when water vapor turns directly into ice without ever passing through a liquid state. It can take the form of ice pellets or snow flakes.

Made up of tiny droplets or from frozen crystals of water.

Violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.

Most common type of precipitation. Rain is when drops of liquid water fall from clouds to the Earth’s surface.

A mixture of and rain as well as raindrops that freeze on their way down.

When drops of rain become super cold, they do NOT freeze in the air. They freeze as soon as they land on an object.

Rare winter storm that has A large amount of snow falling for at least three hours, Winds at least 35 mile per hour, Low visibility