Nauticus - Weather Bloopers

A "just for fun" activity about clear communication. There are a lot of concepts to understand about weather, and sometimes they can get jumbled up!

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Other students wrote these things about the weather. In every case, the person who wrote the sentence was trying to say something real, but because of how they chose to say it, it sounds confusing. Can you make their ideas clearer.
Pick two or three sentences and rewrite them to make sense. (You may have to look in a library to get enough information to straighten the sentence out.)

Weather Bloopers:

One hundred humidities equal one rain.
The highest of all clouds are circus clouds.
In making rain water, it takes everything from H to O.
Thunder is polite and always lets lightning go first.
Rain is often spoken of as soft water, oppositely known as hail.
When passing through Missouri, a typhoon is really not a hurricane but a tornado.
Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.
A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
A monsoon is a French gentleman.
The wind is like air, only pushier.
In lightning, electrons carry the negative charge while protons take the affirmative.
Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
When water falls up it is called evaporation.
Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.