Weather Measurements
Tornadoes
Clouds
Latitude / Longitude
Grab Bag
100
Minimum hurricane 1 wind speed.
What is 74 mph?
100
You measure tornado strength by me.
What is the Fujita scale?
100
I carry warm air a moisture into the atmosphere?
What is convection?
100
We are zero degrees longitude and latitude. (in order)
What are the prime meridian and equator?
100
I have been called a river of air.
What is the jet stream?
200
I am 14.7 lbs/sq. in. at sea level.
What is air pressure?
200
I can detect "echo hooks" in clouds.
What is Doppler Radar?
200
I am the process of going from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
I am the maximum degrees of latitude.
What is 90?
200
Global atmospheric circulation cells are named after me.
What is Hadley?
300
I am expressed as a percentage of air's dew point.
What is relative humidity.
300
I am the type of cumulonimbus cloud that can spawn a tornado.
What is a supercell?
300
My cloud type can enter the stratosphere in really big storms.
What is a cumulonimbus?
300
The day changes at my location.
What is 180 long.? (IDL)
300
I am the acronym for the atmospheric circulation at the equator.
What is the ITCZ?
400
Weather instruments dropped into hurricanes calculate wind speed and direction from my data.
What is a gps?
400
I am the acronym for the kind of tornado that has killed the most motorists.
What is an HPT?
400
I am the highest cloud types.
What is cirrus?
400
I am the latitude of the tropic lines of latitude.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
I am a long, uninterrupted expanse of sea across which winds and waves can gather strength.
What is a fetch?
500
I am equal to 1.16 mph.
What is one knot?
500
I happen high in a cloud tohelp create the circulating air that can become a tornado.
What is wind shear?
500
I look grey and uniform and often drop drizzle.
What is stratus?
500
I am the location of the arctic lines or latitude.
What is 66.5 degrees?
500
I want to become a tornado....if only my echo hook was strong enough!
What is funnel cloud?
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