Weather Vocabulary
Zulu time is ___ around the entire world.
What is the same.
The Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky.
What are Stratus clouds
What is used to measure wind speeds?
What are knots
It is the number of types of reports
Nature's way of recycling water
What is the water cycle.
Broken cloud coverage is abbreviated by these three letters.
What is "BKN"
These clouds are known as fair-weather clouds; white and puffy clouds that look like cotton.
What are Cumulus Clouds
What time is used on all METARs
What is Zulu time
Every airfield in the continental United States starts with this letter as an ICAO.
What is "K"
The process of water changing into water vapor
What is evaportation
A knot is ___ whenever used in METARs.
What is a unit of measure.
What do Cirrus Clouds usually proceed?
What is either rain or snow fall.
What is used to measure pressure in the atmosphere and set the altimeters?
What is inches of mercury.
There are this many sections to a METAR.
What is 11 sections
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity
The "G" in a METAR represents
What is wind gusts
Cumulonimbus clouds form to show.
What is thunderstorms and strong winds are about to happen.
METARs are used to ___
What is predict weather, aid in flight safety, and facilitate maritime navigation.
Visibility is reported in what unit of measure
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation
ICAO stands for ___
What is International Civil Aviation Organization
What cloud forms at the Earth's surface?
What is fog
This is the only temperature where Fahrenheit equals Celsius.
What is -40 degrees.
Time is reported using this time reporting standard.
What is Zulu time
Water that is found underground
What is ground water