radar
Radar is a device
meteorologist
A meteorologist is
a scientist who
studies the weather.
sky
The sky is blue.
thermometer
A thermometer is used
for telling what the
temperature is.
bright light), which creates thunder funnel-shaped. If a
water
Water is a liquid that we
drink and use to wash.
Water covers over two
thirds of the surface of the
The Water Cycle is the journey water
Earth, and much of our
takes as it circulates from the Earth to
body is made of water.
rainbow
A rainbow appears
precipitation
Precipitation is rain, snow,
hail, or sleet.
sleet
Sleet is freezing rain.
A tornado is rapidly
thunderstorm spinning air that is
A thunderstorm is a an electrical
storm with lightning (flashes of
(very loud sounds). tornado travels over
a body of water, it is
called a waterspout.
water cycle
the sky and back again.
that uses rain when sunlight passes
reflected radio Rain is water through bits of water
waves to located that falls from in the air. The white
objects at a clouds. Rain is light is broken up
distance. Radar measured using into many colors.
is short for a rain gauge.
"radio detection
and ranging."
snowflake
Snowflakes are
snow
made of snow -
Snow is flakes
they are storm
of frozen water
crystals. No two A storm is very bad
that fall from
snowflakes look weather, like a
clouds when it is
alike, but they hurricane or a
very cold.
all have six typhoon.
sides.
tornado
twister
Twister is another
very dangerous. vortex
name for a tornado,
Tornados are Rapidly spinning gas or
a rapidly spinning
air that is very
liquid is called a vortex.
dangerous.
weather weather balloon
waterspout Weather is the state A weather balloon is a giant
A waterspout is a that the outdoors is in, balloon that is sent high in
tornado that travels like how windy it is, the sky to measure weather
over a body of water. how hot or cold it is,
information, like
or if it is raining or temperature, wind speed,
snowing. and air pressure.
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