atmos disturbance

    Cards (11)

    • atmospheric disturbance - a weather phenomenon that causes a change in the weather pattern; short-lived and transient.
    • weather fronts - air masses that move across the surface of the earth, bringing different weather conditions with them
    • cold front - downward movement, fast moving
    • warm front - to up, slow movement
    • Warm fronts often bring stormy weather as the warm air mass at the surface rises above the cool air mass
    • mid-latitude cyclones - nor'easterns
    • cyclones - system of winds, coils like a serpent, cyclos, counter clock wise.
    • tornado - rotating column
    • hurricane: over the ocean. Tornado: over the land
    • hurricane - huru cane, evil winds
    • yolanda - 10,000+ people affected, 942 deaths, 95.48 billion pesos
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