Weather Instruments
Types of Weather
Weather Station models
Weather Trivia
Potluck
100
What instrument measures temperature?
What is a thermometer?
100
What is a type of precipitation is formed at 35*-95* with condensation nuclei and falls from the sky?
What is rain?
100
What is the temperature on this weather model?
What is 81* F?
100
What is the windspeed here?
What is 20 knots?
100
Are the rocks pictured angular or rounded? Sorted or unsorted?
What are rounded and sorted
200
A higher temperature means a higher reading on the thermometer. True or false?
What is true?
200
What type of precipitation is formed at 32*?
What is snow?
200
What is the dewpoint for this station model?
What is 61?
200
How is this precipitation formed? 
When rain freezes on it's way down to the surface and becomes sleet
200
What day do we get the most sunlight in New York State? Is it ever directly overhead?
What is June 21 and never?
300
What instrument is used to determine wind direction?
What is a weather vane?
300
What type of precipitation falls as rain and changes into this when it hits a freezing surface?
What is freezing rain?
300
What is the weather that is being experienced
at this station model?
What is thunderstorms?
300
What is the boundary between two different air masses called?
a. line
b. front
c. cloud mass
d. occluded
What is a front? B
300
What weather condition is shown here? What temperature do you think it was when it occurred?
What is freezing rain and 32*?
400
Where is air pressure the highest? on a mountain top or at sea level?
What is at sea level?
400
What type of weather makes it difficult to see in the winter based on visibility and wind speed?
What is a blizzard?
400
What is the windspeed in this model? 
What is 25 mph?
400
What is the name for air masses formed over the middle of Canada called?
Continental Polar (Artic is North Pole)
400
Is the photo showing the Catskills or the Adirondack mountain formations?
What is Catskill (notice rounded top is a plateau, not a peak).
500
What weather instruments are correctly paired to their job?
a) weather vane -wind direction, barometer -air pressure, anemometer -wind speed
b) weather vane -wind speed, barometer -air pressure, anemometer -wind direction
c) barometer -temperature, weather vane -wind speed, anemometer - air pressure
What is A?
500
What would happen to the dew point and temperature in order for fog to form?
They need to be the same.
500
What the wind direction on this station model? 
What is northeast?
500
Would cP air be
a. warm and moist
b. cold and moist
c. warm and dry
d. cold and dry
What is D? Cold and dry from Polar Continental air
500
What day of the year do we have the least sunlight in NYS? How many hours do we get on that day? What is that day called?
What is December 21, 9 hours and Winter solstice?