blog post#3-10/19/09

1. What are the 4 main types of air masses? What does each letter stand for?
Maritime tropical-mT, Maritime polar-mP
Continental tropical-cT, and Continental polar-cP
2. Which kind of air mass is most likely to bring hurricanes? Why?
Maritime tropical,because hurricanes need the necessary heat and moisture to the air.
3. Which kind of air mass(es) is most likely to bring a drought? Why?
Continental tropical,because its warm and dry air.
4. Which kind of air mass(es) bring lake-effect snowstorms? (check p. 561)
Continental polar bring lake-effect snowstorms.
5. Today we learned about the 4 main types of air masses. In reality, there are many more than four. List and explain 2 other air masses.
Arctic-The source region for A air is northern Canada.It has the same characteristics as Polar air except it is colder with even lower dewpoints.
Highland-This air mass occurs in regions with large elevation changes over short distance. It is not a source region for one particular type of air mass.