American 'Canes
This 2005 Hurricane devastated the city of New Orleans, causing many of its residents to be displaced.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This part of the hurricane usually comes with clear skies
What is the Eye?
What is Florida?
The Carolina Hurricanes are a professional hockey team located in this US city.
What is Raleigh, North Carolina?
This US agency and part of NOAA is responsible for issuing officialy tropical cyclone forecasts for the Atlantic and eastern Pacific basins.
What is the National Hurricane Center
This recent hurricane devastated Appalachia, originally making landfall in Florida before moving into the mountainous landscape and causing widespread flooding.
What is Hurricane Helene?
This term refers to the rise in sea level caused by a hurricane.
What is Storm Surge?
This US Coastline has not seen a direct impact from hurricanes since the 1800s.
This trio of Fox shows were set to premiere a "Hurricane" series, but were delayed due to real life storms affecting the southern United States. (Only need 1 answer)
What are Family Guy, American Dad, and the Cleveland Show?
This helpful visual shows the range of locations a hurricane is predicted to hit.
What is the Cone of Uncertainty?
A hurricane hit this American city in 1900, becoming the deadliest hurricane in US history.
What is Galveston?
This scale is used to measure the strength of hurricanes
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
This large, warm ocean current in the Atlantic works as fuel for the formation of hurricanes.
This American musician openly criticized President Bush for his handling of relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Who is Kanye West?
This term describes the sudden strengthening of a tropical cyclone, defined as a pressure drop of 42 millibars or more within 24 hours.
What is Rapid Intensification?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
This hurricane was the first to be classified as a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic.
What is Hurricane Camille? (1969)
Rising Moist Air releases this type of heat, fueling storm intensification.
What is Latent Heat?
Hurricanes that curve northeastward into the north Atlantic often follow this midlatitude feature.
What is the subtropical jet stream?
This 2010 New Orleans based TV show was created after Hurricane Katrina, and followed the stories of residents rebuilding New Orleans after the floods.
What is Treme?
These are the two most commonly used global models in hurricane forecasting (NEED ONE).
What are the GFS and the Euro (ECMWF)?
In terms of wind speed, this was the most powerful hurricane ever recorded.
What is Hurricane Patricia? (2015)
This inertial force causes hurricanes to spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Force?
The deadliest hurricane in WORLD history struck this nation in 1970, which proved to be a major catalyst in this nations independence movement.
What is Bangeledesh?
This 1984 single from this German Band, "Rock You Like A Hurricane", helped the band explode in popularity, and reached the top 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Who is Scorpions?
This University Group has become well known for their hurricane predictions (accurate or not), and are often featured alongside NOAA and average predictions when discussing hurricane forecasting.
What is Colorado State University?