Weather
During the life cycle of a thunderstorm, the stage that is characterized predominately by downdrafts
What is "Dissipating"?
Temperature?
UA/OV OKC 063064/TM 1522/FL080/TP C172/TA M04/WV 245040/TB LGT/RM IN CLR
Minus 4
The primary cause of all changes in Earth's weather
variation of solar energy received across the planet, ie. unequal heating and cooling
A TAF covers a geographical proximity within how many SM of an airport runway complex?
5
Winds aloft are magnetic or true direction?
True
Constant airspeed, level flight, or both. What the FAA recommends you maintain in severe turbulence
What is "level flight attitude"?
Wind?
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245 @ 40 kts
37,000 feet is the average height of the (troposphere/stratosphere/mesosphere) at middle latitudes?
Troposphere
Prognostic charts depict weather that occurs when?
According to the FAA, "at a specific time in the future"
The negative sign ahead of the temperature is omitted for altitudes above what (24,000 27,000 or 30,000)?
24,000
An airmass moving inland from the coast in winter, is expected to form what type of fog?
What is "advection"?
Pressure altitude?
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8000
The standard temperature lapse rate is (temperature per 1000 feet).....
2 C
Two, four, or six...the maximum forecast period for an AIRMET
Six
"9900" in a winds and temperature aloft forecast indicates winds are.....
light and variable, or less than 5 kts
Freezing at higher altitudes is indicted by what observation at the surface?
Ice pellets
Routine or urgent PIREP?
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Routine
Dry adiabatic lapse rate is...(temperature per height)...
3 C per 1,000 ft
Two, four, or six...SIGMETs are valid for up to how many hours?
Four
"739902" in winds aloft decodes as...
wind direction 230
winds > 200 kts
temperature 2 C
A wind shift or wind speed gradient, at any level of the atmosphere can be called --
Wind shear
Distance and direction from OKC VOR?
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63 degree radial, 64 NM
High, middle, low, and those with extensive vertical development
VRB in a TAF indicates winds are less than (3, 6, or 9 kts)?
6
"830558" in winds aloft decodes as....
winds at 330, 105 kts, temperature -58C