Weather Junior Cert Geography

Terms in this set (28)

The day to day state of the atmosphere over any place on earths surface

A person who studies and forecasts weather

The study of weather

Weather stations in Ireland

Belmullet, Kilkenny, Birr, Mullingar, Rosslare

Lines on the map which connect places of equal atmospheric pressure

Lines on a map that joins places of equal temperature

Lines on a map that connect places of equal rainfall

Lines on a map that connect places of equal sunshine

Measures temperature

Measure humidity

Measures atmospheric pressure

Measures precipitation

Measures wind direction

Measures wind force (speed)

Campbell Stokes Recorder

Measures sunshine

Measures how hot or cold the air is

Another word for average

The Beaufort Scale

Measures wind force

A collection of tiny water droplets and/or ice crystals held in the atmosphere

A layer of cloud. Weather = overcast or steady rain

Weather = heavy showers

Weather = good weather

Weather = thunderstorms

Conventional rainfall

Caused by the sun heating the earths surface. Warm air rises, containing water vapour which cools and condenses to form clouds

Cyclonic or frontal rainfall

When two air masses of warm and cold air meet, causing a front

Relief rainfall

Warm air containing water vapour is forced to rise over a mountain. This causes the air to cool and the moisture in the air condenses to form clouds

The collective mass of water found on, under and over the surface of the earth.

Water cycle / hydrological cycle

The cycle of evaporation, condensation, precipitation and run off

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