measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen

small storm accompanied by thunder and lightning formed from large cumulonimbus clouds.

rapidly,whirling,funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud and touches the Earth's surface, formed when thunderstorm updrafts begin to rotate

flow around Earth from West to East, often making large loops to the North or the South. Near the top of the troposphere are narrow bands of high of high winds called jet streams

warm current of water that travels north along the coast of Florida