1. What is a meteorologist? Why is it important to make a forecast?
Warm Up
What is a meteorologist?
Why is it important
to make a forecast?

2. Air Masses
large body of air that has the same properties as the area of the Earth’s surface over which it forms.
For example, deserts produce hot dry air masses.

3. Air Masses (continued)
Cool Dry
Cool Moist
Cool Moist
Warm Moist
Warm Dry
Warm Moist

4. Fronts Fronts: The place where air masses meet is called a front.
Weather is caused by the way these air masses interact.
Fronts

5. Cold Fronts Incoming dense cold air pushes up warm air
This forms a narrow band of violent storms

6. Warm Fronts Warm air slides over departing cool air.
This forms feathery clouds
then stratus then rain.

7. Stationary Front
A cool air mass and a warm air masses meet and stop moving (neither one advances).
This causes a few days of rainy and windy weather.

8. Create a front flip book
Follow all directions to create your study book
SHARE all color pencils, scissors, and supplies
Not sure what to do? S-N-O-T
PUT YOUR NAME ON THE BACK OF IT!!!
Write description and weather that it brings on the inside!
Draw Picture on the front!
Label --
Cold Front
Warm Front
Stationary

9. Work on Fronts Sheet Tornado Oklahoma City 2013 Hurricane Sandy 2012