Saturday, January 30, 2016

Vocabulary for Blizzards



  • Blizzard: a powerful and dangerous snowstorm with low temperatures, strong winds, and large amounts of snow
Blizzard

  • Snow: atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as white layer
Snow

  • Cold Front: where a cold air mass meets a warm air mass

  • Warm Front: where a warm air mass meets a cold air mass (opposite of cold front, so you know what is not a Cold Front)

  • Air mass: an area with similar temperatures and humidity
Note: Some of these definitions are not on the yellow sheet because they couldn't fit and some of these definitions didn't print

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