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Weather. Hydrologic Cycle – The driving engine Evaporation Transportation Condensation Precipitation. Three Cloud Types. Cumulus Stratus Cirrus. Weather: Clouds. C irrus Clouds. Weather: Clouds. Weather: Clouds. Weath er: Clouds. Weath er: Clouds. Cumulus Clouds.

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Weather

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  1. Weather • Hydrologic Cycle – The driving engine • Evaporation • Transportation • Condensation • Precipitation

  2. Three Cloud Types • Cumulus • Stratus • Cirrus

  3. Weather: Clouds Cirrus Clouds

  4. Weather: Clouds

  5. Weather: Clouds

  6. Weather: Clouds

  7. Weather: Clouds Cumulus Clouds

  8. Weather: Clouds

  9. Weather: Clouds

  10. Weather: Clouds Stratus Clouds

  11. Weather: Clouds

  12. Weather: Clouds

  13. Weather: Clouds

  14. Weather Cloud formation Convection Geographic barriers (mountains) Meeting of air masses (fronts) Cold & warm Figure 23.10 & 23.11 Condensation nuclei

  15. Weather • Precipitation • Liquid or solid form • Must fall !!!!! • Formation • Coalescence • Ice crystals

  16. Weather • Air Masses • Consist of the same temperature and moisture content • Takes on the characteristics of its point or origin

  17. Weather • Fronts • The boundary formed between two air masses • Cold • Warm • Fronts do not mix

  18. Weather • Storms • Thunderstorms • Convective • Frontal • Indicates severe instability in the upper atmosphere • Hail • Tornadoes • Directly associated with thunderstorms • Significant instability • Fujita Scale • Palm Sunday • April 11, 1965

  19. Fujita Scale for Tornado Strength

  20. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 • 47 Tornadoes in 11 hrs. • 3rd deadliest outbreak • 12:56 pm first touchdown • 256 deaths • IN – 137 deaths, 1,200 injuries • 62 Elkhart Co. • 17 Howard Co.

  21. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965

  22. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965

  23. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Twin funnel clouds: Elkhart, IN April 11, 1965 10 fatalities

  24. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Greentown, IN

  25. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Kokomo, IN Downtown Area

  26. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Goshen, IN

  27. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Lake Pleasant, IN

  28. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Toledo, OH

  29. Palm Sunday - April 11, 1965 Toledo, OH

  30. Weather • Hurricanes & Typhoons • Significant low pressure cell • Tropical depression • Tropical storm • Develop off the coast of Africa • Feed of the warm ocean water

  31. Weather • Understanding a Weather Map

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