Anticyclone

Air Mass

Front

Tornado

exactly how much water vapor there is in the air.

What percent full the air is of water vapor.

Cold air moves under warm air and pushes it up.

Warm air moves over cold air and replaces it.

Warm air becomes caught between cold air masses

Two air masses meet and stay separated.

Higher temperatures

Lower temperatures

They are the same thing

Weather is the long-term average of climate.

Climate is the long-term average of weather.

They are unrelated

green with lush vegetation

filled with many different plants and animals

freezing cold

very dry

Local Winds

Surface Currents

Deep Currents

Global Winds

Valley breezes are daytime winds that blow up the mountain slopes

Valley breezes are nighttime winds that blow downward into the valley

Mountain breezes are daytime winds that blow downward into the valley

Mountain breezes are nighttime winds that blow up the mountain slope

Cold air flows down the side of a mountain away from the ocean.

Cold air remains over an ocean for an extended period of time.

Warm air is forced up rapidly by a cold air mass.

Warm air rises slowly over a cold air mass.

Drizzly rain followed by clear weather.

severe storms

many days of cloudy wet weather

cold dry weather

clear and sunny

cool and rainy

rainy and windy

cloudy and cold

The sun heats the air at the equator, followed by the hot air rising and moisture condensing.

The dry air moves back to the equator, picking up a lot of moisture on the way.

The air sinks around 30* latitude and is very dry.

The air moves poleward at a high altitude.

Fair

Cloudy

Severe Storms

Clear Skies.