Learning Objectives

This chapter has several goals and objectives:

• Describe the various aspects and elements of weather and atmospheric water.
• Explain how air masses and weather fronts together form mid-latitude cyclones.
• Describe the three phases a thunderstorm goes through in it’s life cycle.
• Determine the causes and geographic location of most tornadoes around the world.
• Describe the genesis of hurricanes formation
• Compare the difference between blizzards lake effects, and heat waves.