Conversions
The temperature at which water vapor starts to condense out of the air.
What is dewpoint?
This is the weather and climate observing network directed by The National Weather Service.
What is COOP?
10SM stands for what type of weather observation? (Not asking to decode)
What is visibility?
An automated surface observing system.
What is ASOS?
An instrument that measures net radiation.
What is the radiometer?
Why is it more humid at night?
What are the temperatures cooler at night?
Discussion of national/local watches and warnings are in this weather briefing component.
What are current observations?
What does TAF stand for?
What is Terminal Aerodrome Forecast?
A wind barb with a flag indicates what wind speed on a station plot? (Must answer with units!!)
What is 50 knots?
Height where wind speed is measured. (Answer with unit!!)
The wind speed is 45 mph. Convert to knots. (Must answer with unit!)
What is 39 knots?
Spaced between 2km and 40km apart, conditions are updated every 1 to 15 minutes.
What is a mesonet?
What is the station needing maintenance?
If the pressure on a station plot is 987, what is the pressure? (Must answer with units!!)
What is 998.7 mb?
Each tick of a tipping bucket rain gauge represents this amount of precipitation. (Must answer with unit!!)
What is .01 inches?
The temperature is 95 degrees fahrenheit. Convert to celsius.
What is 35?
The network originated with Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University in 1988.
What is CoCoRaHS?
What height is the ceiling from this code? (Must answer with units!!)
SCT026 BKN049 OVC150
What is 4900 feet?
Why is isoplething used?
What are identifying weather features and atmospheric patterns?
How is dewpoint derived?
What is using relative humidity and temperature?
The time is 8:00am EDT. Convert to zulu.
What is 12Z?
What weather features should be discussed in a weather briefing? (Name THREE)
What are high/low pressure, fronts, air masses, jet stream alignments, etc.
What is the difference between a METAR and a TAF?
What is METAR that describes current weather at a given station reporting every hour and TAF being a forecast report generated every 6 hours for the coming 24-hour period.
This sector of a midlatitude cyclone has southerly flow, high dewpoints, and can have storms.
What is the warm sector?
What is a source of error in measuring the liquid equivalent of frozen precipitation using a heating element?
What is evaporation bias?