Here are some helpful facts about weather...
* When altitude goes up, temperature goes down.
* When dew point goes down, cloud base (altitude) goes up.
* When temperature and moisture go up, pressure goes down.
*When temperature goes up, density goes down.
* When temperature goes up, relative humidity goes down.
When there is low pressure, there will probably be bad weather.
* When temperature and dewpoint get closer together, there is more chance of precipitaion.
*Clouds consist of water droplets and condensation nuclei (not water vapor).
*When it is warm and moist, there is low pressure (cold + dry = high pressure).
-form on land = continental (c)
-form over water = maritime (m)
-form in high altitudes = polar (p)
- form in low altitudes = tropical (t)
* there are two types of air masses.
Low Pressure Air Masses
-are called lows and cyclones
-in a cyclone, the wind blows toward the center in a counter clockwise motion due to the Coriolis Effect (only in the northern hemisphere).
High Pressure Systems
-the pressure is the greatest in the center.
-they rotate clockwise (in the northern hemisphere) away from the center.
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