CLIMATE                    WEATHER
      climatology            meteorology            paleo-climatology


  El Nino                    La Nina                Monsoon
  global warming

  DROUGHT                    
  HURRICANE                  cyclone                typhoon
  TORNADO                    dust devil             waterspout
       EF                    hurricane category     microburst
       mesocyclone

  FRONT
      blocking front         cold front             warm front 
      occulded front         stationary front

      arctic high            thermal inversion      lake effect
      dry line               low pressure           high pressure
      cut off low            upper level low        trough
      outflow                ridge                  tropical depression

                             meso-scale conductive complex

      Alberta Clipper        Blue Northern          Nor'eastern   


  TEMPERATURE                DEW POINT              BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
  HUMIDITY                   air mass               heat index
  wind chill                 wind speed


  CLOUD                      FOG                    haze
      cirrus                 cumulus                stratus
      ice fog                lenticular cloud       supercell
   
      funnel cloud           towering cumulus       wall cloud
      broken                 overcast               vertical development
      squall line


  WIND                       Chinook Wind           gust
      breeze                 calm                   gale
      Katibatic              jet stream             Santa Anna winds 
      straight line wind     low-level jet          wind shear
      polar jet              subtropical jet


  RAIN                       acid rain              condensation / dew
      drizzle                mist                   sprinkle
      intermittent           thunderstorm           virga
      precipitation          rain shadow
  
  SNOW                       sublimation            whiteout

  SLEET                      hail                   freezing drizzle
       freezing rain         frost


  storm track                storm surge            dust storm 
   
  Aurora Borealis

  troposhere                 stratosphere
  ozone 

  ICE AGE
  SEASON                     spring                  summer        
      fall                   winter                  Indian Summer

  Horse Latitude             mid-latitudes

 

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