Cumulus
Original name for the Air Force
Army Air Corps
CH-47 Chinook
Two quadrants of upper-level divergence in a jet streak.
Right-Rear and left-front
What does this Skew-T depict?
Frontal Inversion
Altocumulous
Air Force birthday
18 Sept 1947
UH-60 Blackhawk
Hook echo
What feature brings moisture in the "Pineapple Express" regime?
Sub-Tropical Jet
Cirrus
Air attack in 1942 that struck Tokyo and the Japanese mainland for the first time
Doolittle raid
Army version of this drone.
MQ-1C Grey Eagle
Native American name for adiabatic warming of downward moving wind.
Chinook wind / Fohn Wind
What indices is used to predict maximum wind gusts in frontal thunderstorms or prefrontal squall lines?
T2
Precip that evaporates before it hits the ground
Virga
Antagonizing and rebellious general, regarded as the father of the US Air Force. Commanded all aircraft in France during WWI.
Billy Mitchell
DCH-8
METAR code for heavy rainfall, hail and lightning within the last 15 minutes.
+TSRAGR
Diurnal mountain wind pattern that flows upslope in the daytime due to uneven heating of the mountainside. Not as strong as an anabatic wind.
Valley breeze
Lenticular
Former United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Chuck Yeager
Note the radar between wing and nose
RC-135 Rivet Joint
As opposed to the tracked line swirling damage patterns from a tornado, this cloud-born phenomena produces Starburst damage patterns from straight-line winds radiating from the point of impact.
Microburst
What weather threat are the following radar signatures associated with?
• Rapidly growing echoes.
• Slow moving echoes.
• Persistency (long lasting).
• Train echoes (echoes that move repeatedly over the same area).
• Hurricanes and tropical storms.
• Line Echo Wave Patterns (LEWPs).
• Converging echoes and lines.
Flash flooding