What air mass gives Georgia weather?

What air mass gives Georgia weather?

Air mass #1 brings warm, moist weather to Georgia, because it is a continental polar air mass. Air mass #2 brings warm, moist weather to Georgia, because it is a maritime tropical air mass.

How do air masses affect the weather?

When winds move air masses, they carry their weather conditions (heat or cold, dry or moist) from the source region to a new region. When the air mass reaches a new region, it might clash with another air mass that has a different temperature and humidity. This can create a severe storm.

Which air mass brings hot and humid muggy weather to Georgia in the summer?

Maritime Tropical

What kind of weather conditions are likely to occur if a cold air mass moves into an area of warm humid air?

Storms arise if the air mass and the region it moves over have different characteristics. For example, when a colder air mass moves over warmer ground, the bottom layer of air is heated. That air rises, forming clouds, rain, and sometimes thunderstorms.

What happens when very warm and humid air is rising over a mass of a very cold air?

When a moving cold air mass meets a warm air mass, that is lighter, it tends to wedge below the latter, thus giving origin to a cold front. The warm air is forced upwards and its ascent causes the formation of clouds.

What kind of air mass would be warm and dry?

tropical air masses

What factors cause air masses to move in the US?

One major influence of air mass movement is the upper level winds such as the upper level winds associated with the jet stream. The jet stream wind is often referred to as a steering wind. The troughs and ridges of the jet stream will help transport cold air toward lower latitudes and warm air toward high latitudes.

What direction do air masses move in the US?

Once an air mass is formed, it is moved by global winds. In the United States, global winds such as the PREVAILING WESTERLIES, tend to move air masses from WEST to EAST!

What are the four different types of air fronts?

There are four basic types of fronts, and the weather associated with them varies.

• Cold Front. A cold front is the leading edge of a colder air mass.
• Warm Front. Warm fronts tend to move slower than cold fronts and are the leading edge of warm air moving northward.
• Stationary Front.
• Occluded Front.