Tornadoes
This is the name of the rating scale used to rate tornadoes.
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale?
The two types of hail growth.
What are wet and dry growth?
Hurricanes are classified/rated using this scale.
What is the Saffir Simpson scale?
The path that the air travels over the lake.
What is the (so) fetch?
Two of the ways we can reconstruct our paleoclimate.
What are ice cores, ocean sediments, tree rings, or coral?
The Enhanced Fujita scale rates tornadoes based off of what?
What is damage?
The spiky protrusions on hailstones.
What are lobes?
Tropical cyclones get named when they reach this classification/rating.
What is tropical storm?
The type of precipitation expected with a deep warm layer over a shallow near surface cold layer.
What is freezing rain?
If an initial increase in a quantity/variable leads to a chain reaction that subsequently leads to a decrease in that quantity/variable.
What is a negative (stable) feedback loop/cycle?
Nearly all tornadoes rotate in this manner.
What is counterclockwise?
The three ingredients for hail formation.
What are an embryo, supercooled liquid water, and a strong updraft?
The abnormal rising of the sea level.
What is storm surge?
When a low-pressure system decreases its central pressure by at least 24 mb in 24 hours.
What is bombogenesis?
The independent organization formed by the World Meteorological Organization to objectively review scientific literature on climate change.
What is the IPCC?
Two environmental conditions conducive for tornado formation.
What are low LCLs and high (low-level) wind shear?
Atmospheric moisture condition leading to more melting of the hailstone.
What is (more) humid?
Three out of the five ingredients for hurricane formation/strengthening.
What are high SSTs, deep layer of warm water, weak vertical wind shear, humid atmosphere, and/or outside of 5 degrees from equator?
A common place to find a transition zone of precipitation types in a Nor'easter.
What is the warm front?
Two out of the three Milankovitch cycles.
What are precession (wobbling), axial tilt, and orbit eccentricity?
The width or location of the infamous tornado on May 31, 2013.
What is 2.6 miles or El Reno, Oklahoma?
The size or location of the official world record hailstone.
What is 8 inches or Vivian, SD?
The name of the circulation in the tropical latitudes and the region where we find the rising motion.
What are the Hadley Cell and the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)?
The criteria for blizzard conditions.
What are winds of at least 35 mph, visibility < 1/4 mile due to falling or blowing snow, conditions for > 3 hours?
Name of the observation site for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations since the late 1950s.
What is the Mauna Loa Observatory?