These are brief, intense snow showers, accompanied by strong, gusty winds
What is a snow squall?
A pair of these birds is the second gift in The 12 Days Of Christmas.
What are Turtledoves
This center is responsible for issuing convective outlooks
What is the SPC?
This Organization turns 100 next year!
What is the American Meteorological Society.
Wind of moderate strength / uncommon first name
What is Gale and Gail?
According to NOAA, there must be at least this amount of snow on the ground at 7:00am Christmas morning to be an ‘official’ White Christmas.
What is an inch?
In The Christmas Song Tiny tots with their eyes all this will find it hard to sleep tonight.
What is glow?
This electronic instrument is used by meteorologists to detect hydrometers at a distance.
What is RADAR?
In 1962, Keith Browning and Frank Ludlam published the first detailed study of this type of thunderstorm characterized by a a deep, persistently rotating updraft.
What is a Supercell?
Bottom of a Cumulonimbus cloud / a kind of Guitar
What is base and Bass?
In China, Dongzhi (冬至) is celebrated by getting together with family to eat dumplings orglutinous rice balls on this day which markes the shortest day of year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
This Christmas song regarding a Czech king was written for kids by John Mason Neale to exemplify generosity.
What is Good King Wenceslas?
This is the network of US weather satellites in geosynchronous orbit (22,240 mi).
What is the GOES?
This 2005 Hurricane at the time set the all time record for lowest central pressure at 882hPa
What is Wilma?
A little cold / a meal of meat and beans.
What is CHILLY AND CHILI?
Situated in the Sierra Nevada, Tamarack in this US state holds the record for the most snow in a calendar month with 390 inches.
What is California.
This boreal herbivore was ostracized for exhibiting a rather odd proboscis tinged with a red luminescence
Who is Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer?
Over 25petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data are stored by this organization.
What is the NCEI?
Around 1806 this British commander drew up a wind force scale and weather notation
Who is Francis Beaufort
A particular region defined by its weather / to to go up; ascend using hands and feet
What is Clime and climb?