Air Masses

1. What are the four main types of air masses? What does each letter stand for?
mT= Maritime Tropical
mP= Maritime Polar
cP = Continental Polar
cT = Continental Tropical

2. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings hurricanes?
CONTINENTAL POLAR AIR MASS

3. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings drought?

CONTINENTAL TROPICAL AIR MASS

4. Which kind of air mass(es) brings lake-effect snowstorms?
MARITIME POLAR AIR MASS

5. Today we learned about the four main types of air masses. In reality, there any many more than four. What are two others? Explain them.

Arctic and Highland