Lake-Related Stuff
Clouds and Halos
Mid-Latitude Cyclones
___ Place in the World
Above the Troposphere
100
A narrow line of consistent precipitation induced by instability over the Great Lakes during the cold season
What is a lake effect band
100
The object that refracts light and is responsible for rainbows
What is rain
100
The direction in which low pressures spin in the northern hemisphere
What is counter-clockwise
100
The coldest continent in the world
What is Antarctica
100
The name of the layer of the atmosphere right above the troposphere
What is the stratosphere
200
The name of the boundary that progresses inland from the lake during the summer months
What is a lake breeze front
200
The name of these types of clouds
What are cumulonimbus
200
The name of a winter storm that tracks up the east coast, often bringing heavy snowfall with it
What is a nor'easter
200
The cloudiest city in the U.S.
What is Anchorage, AK
200
This happens to the temperature as you go up in the stratosphere
What is it increases
300
The name of the term related to the distance/how long winds are over water which is important for lake effect precipitation
What is fetch
300
The name of clouds that are created by mountains and their associated waves (look like UFOs)
What are lenticular clouds
300
The meteorological term that is used when a low pressure system has stopped deepening any further (has lost its supply of warm air advection)
What is occlusion
300
The driest desert in the world
What is the Atacama desert
300
The layer of the atmosphere where auroras typically form
What is the thermosphere
400
The type of circulation present in a land-breeze (hint: thermally______)
What is thermally direct
400
Name this cloud phenomena (bonus for knowing what layer in the atmosphere these occur in)
What are noctilucent clouds
400
The amount of pressure decrease in 24 hours that a cyclone needs to have for it to be dubbed a "bomb cyclone"
What is 24 millibars
400
The country containing the hottest average temperature in the world
What is Ethiopia
400
The name of the meteorological phenomena that causes stratospheric air to approach the surface
What is a tropopause fold
500
The water surface-850 mb air temperature difference needed for lake effect precipitation
What is 13 degrees Celsius (~23 degrees Fahrenheit)
500
Name of this halo
What is a parry arc
500
The lowest ever observed non-tropical cyclone related central pressure (hint: it was in Scotland)
What is 914 mb
500
The rainiest place in the world
What is Mawsynram, India
500
The average temperature of the thermosphere (I'll take anything within a certain range)
What is a 500 degrees C to 2000 degrees C