Extreme Weather by Grant Finch https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather An Earth Science Padlet by Grant Finch en-us 2016-07-26 16:23:42 UTC 2024-05-27 11:31:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png Dust Storms gfbees12 https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117016772 Dust storms are created by winds moving across an arid region. Many times a strong dry cold front is the mechanism that creates the dust or sand storm. As strong winds move across an arid landscape, sand or dirt is picked up from the ground.

Picture Source: http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/6/77/34677_ab939b8ee8f540671ed93b82229a1444_large.jpg]]> 2016-07-26 18:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117016772 Fog gfbees12 https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117017510 Fog is a stratus cloud on the ground. Advection fog is produced by a hortizontal motion of warm moist air over colder ground. An example of this would be a warm front moving across land with a recent snow or cold weather.

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Picture Source: https://vmcdn.ca/f/files/shared/stock-images/weather_freezing_rain_notext.jpg;w=630]]> 2016-07-26 18:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117017519 Hail gfbees12 https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117017527 Super cooled water droplets are carried aloft by strong updrafts in thunderstorms. A small ice particle forms and grows as "waves" of supercooled water droplets continue to bump into the ice particle. A new coat of ice grows with each cycle. The hailstone is kept aloft by the strong updraft. The stronger the updraft the greater the force to keep the heavier hailstones aloft. The hailstone eventually falls to the grown when the the weight is too great for it to remain aloft or when it gets pushed out of the updraft.

Picture Source: http://hometownrestoration.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/HAIL-330x220.jpg]]> 2016-07-26 18:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117017527 Hurricane gfbees12 https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117017559 The warm, moist air over the ocean rises upward from near the surface causing an area of lower air pressure below. Air from surrounding areas with higher air pressure push in to the low pressure area. Then that "new" air becomes warm and moist and rises, too. As the warm air continues to rise, the surrounding air swirls in to take its place. As the warmed, moist air rises and cools off, the water in the air forms clouds. The whole system of clouds and wind spins and grows, fed by the ocean's heat and water evaporating from the surface.

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Positive charge builds up on the ground beneath the cloud and negative charge builds up at the bottom of the cloud.The positive charge from the ground connects with the negative charge from the clouds and a spark of lightning strikes.

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]]> 2016-07-26 18:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117017562 Sleet gfbees12 https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117018486  Sleet or ice pellets are created when snow falls into air above freezing and melts into rain drops. If another below freezing layer below the warm air is of sufficient depth, the rain drops freeze into balls of ice or ice pellets.

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Picture Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/F5_tornado_Elie_Manitoba_2007.jpg]]> 2016-07-26 19:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117018518 Rain gfbees12 https://padlet.com/gfbees12/extremeweather/wish/117018630 Precipitation in the form of rain can be created in a number of different ways. First, two types of processes cause minute droplets to form rain drops. Collision coalescence is a process where tiny droplets gradually grow in size by bumping into each other and growing. This is mostly a warm cloud process where temperatures are above freezing. The second process is a cold cloud process where super cooled water droplets freeze on ice nuclei. These ice nuclei grow into ice crystals. The snowflakes fall and turn into rain drops as the temperatures rise above freezing closer to the ground. This is the primary process that produces rainfall.

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