Conversions
Indicates how close the water vapor pressure in the atmosphere is to the saturation point.
What is relative humidity?
This is a high-density network of weather stations designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena.
These weather observations are taken each hour.
What is METAR?
A visual representation of coded weather observations.
What is the station plot?
The "Brain" of the operation.
What is a datalogger?
Measuring the amount of force per unit area due to the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on the surface.
What is Pressure?
This is a community-based network of volunteers who work together to measure precipitation.
What is CoCoRaHS?
Decode: 17/14
What is the the temperature of 17 degrees Fahrenheit and the dewpoint of 14 degrees Fahrenheit?
Temperature and Dewpoint on a station plot use this unit conversion.
What is Fahrenheit?
What vertical motion is associated with convergence aloft and sinking air?
What is rising pressure?
Wind speed is 78 knots. Convert it to mph. (Must answer as exact answer)
What is 89.7 mph?
What are the four components of a weather briefing?
What are headlines, past synoptic analysis, current observations, and future observations?
Decode: PROB50
What is 50% probability?
If the station plot reads 242, what is the pressure? (Must answer with units!!)
What is 1024.2 mb?
Temperature is measured using a...
What is a thermistor?
Convert 19Z to EST.
What is 2:00pm EST?
What are the three observation networks? (Must name all three!)
What is COOP, Mesonet, and CoCoRaHS
An observation taken at an unscheduled time due to certain criteria that is met such as low visibility, low clouds, frozen precipitation, or thunderstorms?
What is SPECI?
Winds are weak or parallel to the front with a weak to strong temperature gradient.
What is a stationary front?
This is the standard liquid equivalent for frozen precipitation.
What is the 10:1 ratio?
Convert 35 degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit.
What is 95?
This observation network takes observations once per day around 23Z and sends them to the NWS.
What are COOPs?
Decode: KCRW 130339Z 30020G35KT 10SM TS SCT026CB BKN049 OVC150 18/15 A3002 (Must answer with units!!)
What is station identifier, 13th day of the month at 0339 zulu, 300-degree wind direction at 20 knots with gusts of 35, 10 statute miles visibility, thunderstorms, scattered cumulonimbus clouds at 2600 feet, broken clouds at 4900 feet, overcast at 15000 feet, temperature 18 degrees celsius, dewpoint is 15 degrees celsius, altimeter of 30.02 inches of mercury?
What are the lines of constant temperature, dewpoint, pressure, height, and wind? (Must answer in the order of each parameter)
What is isotherm, isodrosotherm, isobar, isohypse, and isotach?
What parameters are measured at a 2m height? (NAME ALL)
What is pressure, temperature, and relative humidity?