Air Masses What should I wear?

Air Masses

What should I wear?

Air Masses

• An air mass forms when air remains stationary over a place for several days. During this time it picks up the temperature and moisture characteristics of that area.

• Definition

• An air mass is a body of air with similar temperature and moisture characteristics.

• We have very unpredictable weather because we have four air masses affecting us.

Snowploughs are on alert.

• Snowploughs are on alert.

• Temperatures are freezing but there is not a cloud in the sky.

• Its cold but not a white Christmas

• On geography field trip your teacher talks about ‘Warm rain!’

• The weeds just love this weather!

• Many people’s water pipes are bursting

• Ireland is called the ‘Emerald Island’

• Ski Lifts open in the Highlands near Inverness

• Cambridge has a hose pipe ban

• Sahara dust is found in the South of England

• London is having warmer weather than Edinburgh

• The phrase ‘Always wet in the west ‘