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Tropical
Supercell
El Nino
Icing
100

How many inches do you need for heavy precip?

2 inches in 12 hours

100
What surface temperature do you need for hurricane cyclogenesis

26C or greater

100

The horizontal roll created from veering winds spins in which direction

anticyclonic

100

El nino is the ________ phase of the Enso fluctuation

warm

100

Icing ahead of the warm front is found how far?

300 miles

200

Bora wind is associated with ______air advection

cold

200

What sustained wind speeds do you need at a minimum for a Tropical Storm

34 knots

200

A small scale low height center within the super cell is also called?

mesocyclone

200

El nino is strong during the________

Winter

200

Icing behind the cold front is found how far?

100 miles

300

Mountain breeze occurs during _____time

night

300
Which quadrant of a hurricane has the most amount of devastation. 

right front quadrant

300

Rear flank downdraft is created by what?

When strong mid-level winds interact with the updraft core.
300

El nino occurs irregularly ever ____ to _____ years

2 to 7

300

What type of icing is found ahead of a warm front

light rime

400

6 group in a metar is for?

3 and 6 hourly precipitation

400

Stable wave has the greatest upward vertical motion _________ of the trough axis.

east

400

What type of air advection sinks and pulls the cyclonic vortex downward causing it to stretch in the vertical.

cold air

400

La Nina has decreased or increased convection convection along the equatorial pacific ocean

decreased

400
Freezing rain is what type of icing

severe clear

500

What is RVRNO

Reported whenever RVR is required but it is missing or unavailable

500

Unstable waves moves ________ than the low-level flow.

faster

500

What causes the horizontal roll to bend upward

strong updraft

500

La nina has ______elevation in the western pacific

Increase

500

freezing drizzle is what type of icing

moderate clear

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