Today you learned about the four main types of air masses. Answer the following questions in your blog:

1. What are the 4 main types of air masses? What does each letter stand for?
mT=Maritime Tropical, mP=Maritime Polar, cT=Continental Tropical, cP=Continental Polar.
2. Which kind of air mass is most likely to bring hurricanes? Why?
Maritime Tropical.
3. Which kind of air mass(es) is most likely to bring a drought? Why?
Continental Tropical and Continental Polar.
4. Which kind of air mass(es) bring lake-effect snowstorms? (check p. 561)
Continental Polar and Maritime Polar.
5. Today we learned about the 4 main types of air masses. In reality, there are many more than four. List and explain 2 other air masses.
Arctic and Highland. Arctice is frigid and dry. Highland is cold and dry.