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What is Isobar?

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

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A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.