Vocab
Weather Analysis
Symbols & Fronts
Weather Instruments
Other
100
Current state of the atmosphere, including short-term variations such as temperature and precipitation.
What is weather?
100
This type of forecasting uses computers to analyze data and predict future weather.
What is a digital forecast?
100
This shape is used to depict a cold weather front.
What are triangles?
100
Weather instrument used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Missionary work by Bishop Palladius & this saint succeeded in converting Ireland to Christianity
Who is St. Patrick?
200
Because the Earth rotates on its axis, circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
200
This type of system is characterized by cloud formation and air moving upward in a counterclockwise direction.
What is a low-pressure system?
200
This shape is used to show a front that has a gradual incline and is characterized by cloudiness and precipitation.
What are semi-circles?
200
This device is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks.
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
Change in the wave frequency that occurs in energy when that energy moves toward or away from an observer.
What is the doppler effect?
300
Isobars in close proximity indicate this type of weather phenoemena.
What is high wind speed?
300
This type of front is depicted by triangles and semi-circles pointed in opposite directions.
What is a stationary front?
300
This device is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
This astronomer gets a well knows shoutout in the song "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Who is Galileo?
400
Weather forecast that compares current weather patterns to pattern that occurred in the past.
What is an analog forecast?
400
A hurricane in the northern hemisphere will spin in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
400
This color and shape(s) depicts a front that occurs when warm air is overtaken by cold air and is forced upward.
What are purple triangles and semi-circles?
400
This device sends out electromagnetic waves and can detect the direction rain is moving
What is doppler radar?
400
Body Parts in Latin:
Genu (an in genuflect)
What is the knee?
500
Line drawn on a weather map that connects points of equal or constant values.
What is an isopleth?
500
Monthly or seasonal weather forecasts are based on this.
What are cyclical patterns?
500
This type of front is moving in this direction just west of Wisconsin.
What is a cold front moving east?
500
Collection of multiple weather instruments used to gather surface data. Often found at airports.
What is ASOS?
500
This character from the Lord of the Rings franchise stated "I'm wasted on cross-country. We dwarves are natural sprinters. Very dangerous over short distances."
Who is Gimli?