Training (meteorology)

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/training-meteorology

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the meteorological phenomenon?Training (meteorology)
2. What are training thunderstorms?Training thunderstorms are storms that keep coming over the same spot, like cars on a train track, bringing lots of rain in a short time.
3. Why do training thunderstorms cause big floods?Because each storm keeps adding more rain to the same area, the ground and rivers get overwhelmed, causing sudden floods.

Convective Storm Activity: Weather phenomena characterized by upward air motion, leading to cloud formation and precipitation, such as thunderstorms.
Mesoscale: Refers to atmospheric phenomena that occur on horizontal scales from about 1 kilometer to 1,000 kilometers.
Watershed: An area of land where all of the water that falls in it and drains off of it goes to a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.