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a Hurricane
a Hurricane
This type of puffy cloud is a harbinger of fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
This type of precipitation can dent your car after numerous trips up and down through a cumulomimbus cloud.
What is hail?
This day features 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of nighttime for the entire planet.
What is the equinox?
This device records barometric pressure.
What is a barometer?
This animal is associated with the calm winds found around the ocean's equatorial low pressure zones.
What are horses?
This type of wind is common in Asia, and the same term is used to describe conventional thunderstorms in the Southwest United States.
What are monsoons?
These high wispy clouds are mostly made of ice crystals and often foreshadow the arrival of a warm front.
What are cirrus clouds?
This condition makes it extra "hot down summer in the city"...so you may want country roads to take you home to the place where it's cooler...and Gilligan ain't there.
What is the urban heat island?
This device in homes and cars pressurizes gas to create heat and releases that pressure to create cold... Hey who turned the thermostat down?!
What is an air conditioner?
These intense swirling winds sometime form during a thunderstorm over Santa Monica Bay?
What is a water spout (or tornado)?
What is flooding?
This characteristic of water will ruin your house pipes on extremely cold nights.
What is freeze expansion?
What is August?
The low pressure system associated with this state brings rainy weather to California in the winter.
What is Alaska?
This wind direction should be called a "Westerly" in Southern California, but local newscasters call this sea breeze this .... just go with it.
What is an 'on shore flow'?
This force is too weak near the equator to cause the massive thunderstorms of the ITCZ to become hurricanes.
What is the Coriolis force?
This type of ice forms regularly at night and can break rocks and create pot holes.
What is frost?
Thermal expansion of air in the lowland regions produces this wind that blows up hill during hot days.
What is a valley breeze?
Wink, wink. This is the place where the lowest pressures are recorded.
What is the eye of a hurricane?
This state's real estate market has been badly damaged by rising insurance costs from repeated hurricanes...and climate change denying governors.
What is Florida?
What is a hurriquake?
North of this latitude, you're can be rounded up for 24 hours of day light in the summer.
What is 66 degrees north, or the Artic Circle?
What is an inversion?
This area moves north to south across the equator chasing the greatest source of radiation - and featuring consistent low pressure.
What is the intertropical convergence zone or ITCZ?
This upward wind draft is caused by condensation releasing a type of energy known as this.
What is latent heat?