Weather/Climate
This is used to measure weather data aloft in the atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon?
The minimum wind speed required for a tropical system to become a tropical storm.
What is 39 mph?
What is a tornado?
This type of snow forms downwind relatively warm lake water when the air is very cold.
What is lake-effect snow?
What is 30 minutes?
What is winter?
The minimum wind speed required for a tropical system to become a hurricane?
What is 74mph?
The minimum criteria needed for a storm to be classified as severe.
What are 58mph winds, 1" hail, and or a tornado?
The number of sides to a snowflake.
What is 6?
The slogan you should follow if you come across flooding.
What is "Turn Around, Don't Drown"?
This instrument is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
The months given to Hurricane Season in the North Atlantic Basin.
What is June to November?
Irregular clumps of ice that can grow by residing a long time in a storm's updraft.
What is hail?
This precipitation type melts completely and refreezes before reaching the ground.
What is sleet?
This type of bulletin is issued when conditions are favorable for a weather hazard to occur.
What is a watch?
This type of cloud is a high level cloud made up of ice crystals.
What is a cirrus cloud?
The rapid rise of seawater when a tropical storm or hurricane approaches land.
What is storm surge?
A long lived storm with a persistent rotating updraft.
What is a supercell?
This type of precipitation melts completely then refreezes on a below-freezing surface.
What is freezing rain?
This type of bulletin is issued when a weather hazard is imminent or already occurring.
What is a warning?
Air near the ground converges in a counterclockwise fashion around this weather feature.
What is low pressure?
This state holds the record of the wettest tropical cyclone with 60.58 inches of rain from Hurricane Harvey.
What is Texas?
The change in wind speed and or direction with height.
What is wind shear?
A winter storm with >35mph wind gusts, <1/4 mile reduced visibility, lasting 3+ hours?
What is a blizzard?
On average, the deadliest weather related phenomenon.
What is extreme heat?