CMS - Weather and Climate Vocabulary

Mrs. Ducham (United States of America)
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  1. dew
    water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight
    “The dew point is below 60,” he said. New York Times (Apr 16, 2012)
  2. tornado
    a violently destructive windstorm occurring over land
    It was unclear how many tornadoes touched down in all, said Billy Williams, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
  3. lightning
    flash of light from an electric discharge in the atmosphere
    Some 200 years after Mary Shelley used lightning to breath life into Frankenstein's monster, scientists have copied her idea to power a phone.
  4. hail
    precipitation of ice pellets
    "Some marginally severe hail and even a tornado cannot be ruled out this evening," the weather service said in a statement.
  5. hurricane
    a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds
    It then gradually began losing strength, according to the United States National Hurricane Center, going back to being a tropical storm.
  6. humidity
    wetness in the atmosphere
    Temperatures were about 15F degrees above normal and taking into account humidity, conditions felt more like 101F. Scientific American (Sep 12, 2013)
  7. barometer
    an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
    So a falling barometer means a storm, a rising one fair weather. Longstreth, Thomas Morris
  8. weather
    atmospheric conditions such as temperature and precipitation
  9. climate
    the weather in some location averaged over a period of time
  10. tropical
    relating to part of the Earth's surface with hot climate
  11. validity
    the quality of being legitimate and rigorous
    One area in which handwriting analysis may have some validity is in medical diagnosis. Slate (Jan 11, 2013)
  12. accurate
    characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
    For the first time, accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests for malaria are common in several African countries.
  13. valid
    well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force
    "That approach is just as valid in the field of life sciences as it is in software engineering," he said.
Created on Tue Oct 22 15:44:15 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Oct 23 10:30:50 EDT 2013)

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