Pure Chaos
Explain This Thing in terms that Ashley can Understand
Weird Weather
Weather History
Storm Chasers
100
What was that one dude's name that gave us the KOTA tour?
Who is David Stradling?
100
Explain to me the difference between a cyclone and a hurricane.
If you get this wrong I'm going to be disappointed... plus you get extra points for explaining the geographic locations.
Hurricanes happen in the Atlantic & northeast Pacific.
Cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean.
100
These are known as "tornadoes of water". They are simply tornadoes that have moved from land to water.
What is Waterspouts?
100
This hurricane hit Florida twice and is in the top three for most costly hurricanes to hit the US.
Hurricane Andrew
100
This person is the most famous storm chaser according to whatever website I got this information from.
Who is Reed Timmer?
200
Send one team member up to do this weather forecast and I'll decide if it is good enough for the 200 points.
Ashley? What's the verdict?
200
Explain the difference between a watch and a warning.
Something like this:
Watches usually cover a large area where severe weather conditions could develop. A warning happens when conditions are already occurring or will be soon.
200
This is a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms.
What is a derecho?
200
On March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least twelve significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the midwestern and southern United States.
What is the Tri-State tornado outbreak?
200
This guy and his brother died chasing the 2013 El Reno tornado.
Who is Tim Samaras?
300
Free points, here you go. Here's a meme too.
You're welcome. You might be my favorite team idk. Haven't decided yet.
300
Explain a polar vortex to me.
Your explanation should have been something like this:
300
“I want to tell you that on the day after the departure of our brothers Kuntz and Michel, on a Friday, we saw three suns in the sky for a good long time, about an hour…Even though the other two suns were not as bright as the one, they were clearly visible. I feel this was no small miracle.” — Jakob Hutter, 1533.
Hutter saw this.
What is a sundog/mock sun?
300
This blizzard is known as "the Great White Hurricane".
What is the Great Blizzard of 1888?
300
What is the average salary of a storm chaser in the US?
$89,932
400
Please do a visual interpretation of a tornado. Yes, you read that correctly.
Ashley? Was that good enough?
400
Explain CAPE to me.
Convective Available Potential Energy is the amount of fuel available to a developing thunderstorm. More specifically, it describes the instability of the atmosphere and provides an approximation of updraft strength within a thunderstorm.
I also would have accepted the answer "What is what Batman wears?". Only Batman though.
400
Name this thing.
What is a snow roller?
400
On August 11, 1979, the deadliest flash flood occurred. Name the country where this happened.
What is India?
400
This was the first person to gain public recognition as a storm chaser.
Who is David Hoadley?
500
This person played Bill Paxton in the movie Twister.
Who is Bill Harding?
500
Two words. Tropical. Depression. Explain, please.
What is being depressed in like the Bahamas or something?
I guess I could also accept an answer like "What is an area of low pressure, counter-clockwise rotation of clouds, and winds to 38 mph?"
500
This is ghostly precipitation that never makes it to the ground. When the air beneath a cloud is very dry, precipitation falling through it evaporates before reaching Earth’s surface.
What is virga?
500
This was the most detrimental flood in South Dakota history.
What is the 1972 Black Hills flood?
AKA the Rapid City flood.
500
This is the first thing that popped up on my computer when I searched "storm chasers".
I will give you a hint if you ask nicely... maybe.
What are the Omaha Storm Chasers?
This is what happens when you have the nonweather person make the jeopardy people. Fight me.