Tornados
What is the largest number on the EF scale for tornados?
What is a tornado?
A strong updraft of warm air and downdraft of cold air creating a rotating cyclonic formation.
What is a hurricane?
An Atlantic ocean massive cyclonic storm often with high winds and strong rains
Two examples of cyclonic weather
Hurricane, Tornado, Hypercane, or Supercell
What is the name of the least cloudy weather?
Clear or sunny
What is a dust devil
A dirt tornado that is very weak and forms from rising heat, and it forms without any clouds to form it.
What is a supercell?
A rotating mass of cloud in a thunderstorm that can often create tornados and hail
Yes, but it can mean the storm is strengthening or weakening
What color(s) are the mother of pearl clouds?
Often very colorful with shades of blue, purple, yellow, orange, and green.
What does it mean when 1-25% of the sky is covered in clouds?
Mostly sunny
What is a tornadic waterspout?
A tornado that goes over water
What does it mean when the clouds turn green during a strong thunderstorm?
It often means very severe weather could happen, like tornados.
Yes, but rarely
What are mammatus clouds?
Ball shaped cloud formations under a thunderstorm cloud, often meaning a storm is beginning or ending
Is there a difference between partially sunny and partially cloudy?
No, except the wording.
Can the sun have tornados?
Yes, and the tornados are extremely tall
What is a superbolt?
An extremely strong lightning bolt often 10-1000x stronger than the average lightning.
What was the deadliest cat5 hurricane on record
Hurricane Camille
What are lenticular clouds?
Round layered upside-down bowl-shaped clouds that often form above mountains.
What is the highest everyday cloud?
Cirrus
What is the windspeeds of the fastest tornado on record?
321 miles per hour
What were the strongest winds ever?
321 miles per hour
What were the average windspeeds of the infamous hurricane Camille
175 mph
What does PSC stand for?
Polar stratospheric clouds
What is the word that means rain from average clouds that evaporates before hitting the ground?
Virga