Everyone's Favorite (Mountain Clouds and Halos)
Most Expensive Wx Disasters
Synoptic Stuff
Severe Wx
Winter Wx
100
What lenticular clouds are often said to look like
What is a UFO
100
Most expensive Atlantic hurricane
What is Katrina (201 bil in todays money)
100
Name of the area of higher 500 mb heights typically associated with warmer weather
What is a ridge
100
Radar signature shape usually indicating rotation in a thunderstorm
What is a hook echo
100
Strong winter storms that impact the east coast, often bringing large amounts of snow
What is a Nor'easter
200
Object that causes ski resorts to have a large number of rare atmospheric halos
What is a snow gun or snow cannon
200
Most expensive tornado
What is the Joplin EF5 (3.8 bil in today's money)
200
Level(s) we look at for the jet stream/streaks
What is 250mb (300mb)
200
Name of the cloud that thunderstorms usually develop from
What is a cumulus cloud
200
Another name for a snowflake
What is a dendrite
300
Country said to have the most lenticular clouds on the planet
What is New Zealand
300
Most expensive winter storm/blizzard
What is the 1993 blizzard (10 bil)
300
Name of the vertical force balance that synoptic scale weather has
What is the vertical pressure gradient force
300
The widest tornado ever recorded (confirmed)
What is the 2013 El Reno tornado
300
Name of the most frequent type of low pressures that occur in winter
What are Alberta Clippers
400
Name of a type of lenticular cloud that hovers at the peak of a mountain as shown in the image
What is a cap cloud
400
Most expensive u.s wildfire event
What is the Camp fire (12.4 bil)
400
Quantity that is advected downstream from the base of a trough at 500mb
What is vorticity
400
The two types of downdrafts present in a supercell
What is a forward flank downdraft and a rear flank downdraft
400
The actual climatological snow to liquid ratio for the U.S according to Baxter et al (hint it's not 10:1)
What is 13:1
500
Name of the lower level clouds in this image
What is a rotor cloud
500
Most expensive tropical cyclone (non-u.s)
What is typhoon Egay/Doksuri in 2023 (30 bil)
500
Name the cyclonically curving portion of the warm conveyor belt
What is the TROWAL
500
The severe weather parameter found by sweeping out an area between storm motion and two levels
What is SRH
500
Location that gets the most amount of snow per year on average
What is Paradise Ranger Station (Mt. Rainier National Park) at over 56 ft