Tropical
These powerful storms often form in the late summer/fall in the Atlantic basin.
What is a Hurricane
This type of pressure system is known to bring hot and sunny conditions during the summer.
What is a High Pressure System?
All weather on Earth is caused by this cosmic object.
Name this object.
What is the Sun?
This UTM Meteorology Professor is known for having a penguin named Tux.
Who is Dr. Scott?
This type of flightless bird is known to live in Antarctica.
The _______ often brings heavy rains in the summer in tropical locations. Hint: Starts with M
What is the Monsoon
This type of system is known to bring unsettled weather (clouds, rain, storms) to our area.
What is a Low Pressure System?
The ______ is the average weather of a location over a period of at least 30 years.
What is Climate?
This Broadcast meteorologist works in Nashville but is also known to make appearances on Good Morning America.
Who is Danielle Breezy?
Oh no, you have selected a hard question for 200 points!
This type of lift occurs when air is forced to rise over a topographical feature, such as a mountain.
Hint: Starts with "O"
What is Orographic Lift?
This type of coastal breeze forms at Night.
Hint: The breeze is named after where it originates
What is a Land Breeze?
This powerful storm system is classified as a line of storms that produce winds in excess of 58 mph for a path length of at least 240 Miles. They often occur in the summertime in the midwest.
Hint: The name has Spanish origins
This tornado officially holds the title of having the longest path on record.
Hint: Phineas and Ferb
This meteorologist is known for his/her love of Thundersnow
Who is Jim Cantore?
This Mississippi State Alum is known for his love of Lake Superior and Canyon, Texas.
Who is Mr. Wallace
This extremely powerful Hurricane had the highest sustained wind speeds of any Hurricane ever recorded.
Hint: East Pacific, 2015
What is Hurricane Patricia?
This US state is known to have the highest number of Tornadoes per year.
What is Texas?
God Bless Texas
What is the Atacama Desert?
Name our current meteorology student who will be starting his/her job as a Broadcast Meteorologist for Abilene, Texas this summer.
Who is Carter Vandrasik?
Congrats! You have picked an easy Question for 400 points!
A violently rotating column of air, spawned by a supercell is known as a _____.
What is a Tornado?
This term describes the phenomenon where the water in the Tropical East Pacific is warmer than Normal.
What is El Nino?
Which US State has never seen snowfall?
Trick question. All 50 US states have seen snowfall at some point.
This is the outermost layer of the Atmosphere.
This UTM professor played an integral role in establishing the Meteorology Program here at UTM.
Hint: His Specialty is Climatology
Who is Dr. Simpson?
This type of front occurs when the cold front overruns the warm front in a Mid-Latitude Cyclone.
What is an Occluded Front?