Lightning is responsible for more deaths in Florida, by far, than any other weather-related cause. A persistent seasonal wind and rainfall pattern that occurs over parts of Asia and Africa, as well as the southwest United States. A low pressure system which tracks along the east coast of the United States, usually during fall and winter. A condition where warm moist air rides up an over cooler air at the surface, usually resulting in precipitation. A form of oxygen having 3 molecules, found in the upper atmosphere.
Ozone filters out much of the harmful ultra-violet radiation of the sun.
Liquid or solid water that falls from clouds and reaches the ground. The force created on the atmosphere by gravity. Precipitation which falls as a liquid, whose drops are larger than those of drizzle. A downwind side of a mountain range which receives little or no precipitation during a storm. The upwind sides of mountain ranges receive much more precipitation than the downwind sides because the moisture in the air condenses out as the air rises up the range and dries out as it descends down the lee side of the range.