Weather vs. Climate
Weather is short-term and climate is long-term
What is the key difference between weather and climate?
Who created the original Fujita Scale?
Who is T. Theodore Fujita?
The calm center of a hurricane.
What is the eye of a hurricane?
Paradise, California
Where did the most destructive wildfire in California occur in 2018?
Thermometer
What measures temperature?
This term is used to describe average temperature and rainfall over decades.
What is climate?
Measures the strength of a tornado based on the damage it caused
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
The strongest wind and most destructive winds are found in this part of a hurricane.]
What is the eye wall?
Use materials that are not flammable when building/use stones instead of mulch around buildings
What are ways people can prevent wildfires from spreading?
Data records
What is used to identify climate?
This cloud is low, gray, and sheet-like.
What is stratus cloud?
A rotating column of air not touching the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
Winds 130-156 mph/Well-built homes can suffer severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks.
What is a category 4 hurricane?
3 things needed to start a wildfire.
What are fuel, ignition source, and hot, dry, windy weather?
A long-term change in weather patterns and more intense natural disasters.
What is climate change?
These clouds are puffy and cotton-like.
What are cumulus clouds?
What is Tornado Alley?
The most destructive type of hurricane.
What is a category 5 hurricane?
Warmer temperatures and drought have created longer wildfire seasons.
What is climate change?
High today of 79 degrees with a chance of a thunderstorm later in the afteroon
What is weather?
This type of cloud forms during thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus cloud?
Tornadoes with 166 to 200 mph wind gusts. These tornadoes can easily destroy homes, toss cars and down large trees, these tornadoes can be devastating.
What is an EF 4 tornadoe?
This happens during a hurricane when the water level rises quickly.
What is a storm surge?
Downed power lines, dry leaves/plants/tree, and high winds
What are the three factors that lead to the wildfires in Paradise, California?