Air Masses & Fronts
Weather Station Models
Global Winds
Local Winds
Pot Luck
100
Which front is associated with severe weather?
occluded
100
How close to the dew point is the temperature?
21*
100
What wind system dominates at Santa's house?
Polar easterlies
100
Winds associated with Southern California...
Santa Ana
100
What happens to pressure as you increase elevation?
It decreases
200
What weather is associated with an approaching warm front of the ocean?
slow steady rain and warmer temperatures
200
What is the temperature?
76*F
200
What wind system dominates in VA?
Prevailing westerlies
200
Give an example of a foehn wind found in the US.
Chinook
200
What air mass would be behind a cold front traveling south from Canada?
continental polar cP
300
What air mass is most likely to bring a heavy snowstorm to VA?
maritime polar mP
300
What is the wind speed and direction?
20knots (mph) NW
300
What is the pressure at 60*S?
Low
300
What wind dominates the beach during the day?
sea breeze
300
What is the pressure of the Chesapeake Bay? Be specific with your approximation, it is not on a line.
1013mb or 1014mb
400
What direction is the wind moving over the north-central US (North Dakota area)? How do you know?
The wind is blowing northeast (high to low) from the southwest to the northeast. The wind name would be NW
400
If a weather station model pressure reads 972 what is the pressure in mb?
997.2mb
400
What wind system dominates at 25*S?
southeast tradewinds
400
Name two local winds that move downhill.
Foehn, chinook, mountain breeze, katabatic
400
Name an area on the map that would be having thunderstorms. Explain
At a cold front with Low nearby or Florida, where an occuluded is forming as the cold front comes in behind the warm front
500
What air mass is currently over Florida?
maritime tropical mT
500
Which station is most likely to have snow today?
Station 1: Below freezing and cloudy
500
At the doldrums, what is the pressure at the surface and what is the pressure aloft?
surface high, aloft low: air is rising from high (where winds converge at surface) to low (where they are rising to)
500
What pressure dominates during the summer monsoon wet season?
Low
500
If Japan is located between 0 and 30*, which side would have the strongest sea breeze and why?
The northeast or east side. The NE trade winds would blow with a sea breeze from the ocean to the land.