Chapter 18 Research blurb topics

• Water and its changing state of matter
• Sling Psychrometers
• Barometers
• Dew and Dew point
• Cloud formation by orographic lifting and frontal wedging
• Hot air balloons and how they work
• Birds using “thermals”
• The jet stream
• Precipitation extremes - largest hailstones, most rain, biggest snowstorms - where, how much, in our country, or per state, or the world, etc.
• Cloud types ( other than the basic types of stratus, cumulus, and cirrus nor nimbus)
• Rime Ice and Glaze
• Smog