Winter Weather
T-storms
Severe Weather
Hurricanes
Climate
100

When a storm system intensifies by AT LEAST 24 millibars in less than 24 hours. 

What is bombogenesis? 
100
A typical life-time of your typical "garden-variety", or "pop up" single cell thunderstorms. 
What is 30-60 minutes.
100
The rotating updraft that makes a thunderstorm get classified as a supercell.
What is the MESOCYCLONE 
100
The location in tropical oceans where hurricanes absolutely cannot form 
Where is WITHIN 5° OF THE EQUATOR? 
100
The temperature that the Earth would be without the greenhouse effect. With it, the temperature of the planet is 60°.
What is 0 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT
200
The amount of snow that needs to fall in a snow storm for it to be classified as a blizzard. 
The snow amount doesn't matter!!!!
200
The three stages (in order) of single cell convection.
1) Cumulus Stage

2) Mature Stage

3) Dissipation Stage

200
The EF-scale rates tornadoes based on this criteria. 
What is OBSERVED DAMAGE
200
In the northern hemisphere, the worst storm surge of a hurricane and the strongest winds will be found in this quadrant. 
What is the RIGHT FRONT QUADRANT 
200
The time of the year when Carbon Dioxide levels hit their annual maximum. 
When is MARCH/APRIL 
300
If your atmosphere is below freezing through the entire layer, except for a very shallow warm nose in the middle atmosphere, you would expect this type of precipitation. 
What is SLEET?
300
The leading edge of rain-cooled air that is spreading out from the base of a thunderstorm.
What is a GUST FRONT 
300
The missing 'SEVERE' thunderstorm criterion of the following...

1) A tornado

2) Winds of at least 58 miles per hour

3)

What is HAIL OF AT LEAST 1" IN DIAMETER 
300
The date range of the traditional hurricane season. 
What is JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30 
300
The term referring to the prevailing weather conditions in a certain region over a period of time of at least 30 years. 
What is CLIMATE
400
How will you want your fetch oriented, with respect to a lake, in order to create one or two, long-lived, well-organized, heavy lake effect snow bands? 
What is PARALLEL? 
400
Very long, and also very narrow bands of thunderstorms that have high winds, heavy rain and can last many hours. 
What are SQUALL LINES
400
The area with a high risk for severe weather, bounded by a cold front, warm front, and first isobar extending around a low pressure center. 
What is LARKO'S TRIANGLE 
400
It's the missing "ingredient" in hurricane formation 

1) SST of 79F or higher

2) Instability

3) Very moist atmosphere

4) 

5) Genesis at least 5° from equator

6) A cluster of disorganized convection 

What is WEAK VERTICAL WIND SHEAR 
400
The following feedback loop, known as...

Warmer --> Melt ice --> Lower albedo --> Absorb more sunlight --> Warmer 

What is ARCTIC AMPLIFICATION
500
The three ingredients in the "recipe" for a big snow storm. 
1) Cold air in place

2) Source of deep moisture

3) Lifting mechanism

500
For a derecho to be classified, you need to observe wind gusts of 58 miles per hour or greater continuously for how many miles? 
At least 250 miles. 
500

Supercells often need at least 40 knots of wind shear to achieve this goal, and keep the storm healthy. 

What is CARRYING THE PRECIPITATION FAR AWAY FROM THE UPDRAFT? 

500
The two forces that help to achieve the force balance in the eyewall of a hurricane. 
What are the PGF and CENTRIFUGAL forces
500
PICK ONE FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING WATERSHED PRECIPITATION EVENTS, AS WE GO INTO THE FUTURE.


(More/Less) RUNOFF

(More/Less) EVAPORATION

(More/Less) SOAKING INTO THE GROUNDWATER 

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