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| large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture throughout |
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| the area an air mass gets its characteristics |
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cold air moves under warm air pushing it up
brings thunderstorms, heavy rain or snow
cool weather follow because the warm air is pushed away from Earth |
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warm, less dense air moves over cold dense air, pushing it out of its way
brings drizzly rain and clear warm weather after |
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a warm air mass is caught between 2 cold air masses
cold air mass pushes the war mass out of the way eventually doing the same to the cooler mass
brings cool temperature and large amounts of rain and snow |
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cold air mass meets warm air mass and neither has enough power to move the other one out of the way
brings drizzly rain and clear warm weather after |
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altitude: middle
characteristics: white, puffy, and have flat bottoms
composition: water droplets and ice crystals
weather: fair weather |
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altitude: low
characteristics: form layers, cover large parts of the sky, dark clouds, blocks the sun
composition: water droplets, and fog
weather: drizzling to heavy rain, can from fog if the cloud is close enough to the ground |
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altitude: high
characteristics: thin, feathery, white clouds, forms when wind is strong
composition: ice crystals
weatherL strong wind, if they are thick then the weather could be bad |
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altitude: low to high
characteristics: puffy, large cumulus clouds, tall
composition; water droplets and ice
weather: precipitation-thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hail |
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