A thunderstorm is a rain shower during which you hear thunder. Since thunder comes from lightning, all thunderstorms have lightning.
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What is a hurricane?
A tropical cyclone becomes a hurricane when its wind speeds reach or go above 65 kts, or 74 mph.
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What kind of front goes by fast and after it goes by brings good weather?
warm front
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During a tornado what should someone do?
Seek shelter in a basement or low ground
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True or False. It must be 32°F or colder for it to snow?
False. It has been known to snow with temperatures in the mid 40's. Temperatures are below 32°F up in the clouds where the snow is forming.
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What is a severe thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm is classified as “severe” when it contains one or more of the following: hail one inch or greater, winds gusting in excess of 50 knots (57.5 mph), or a tornado.
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What is the eye wall?
The eyewall is the ring and heavy showers and thunderstorms that precede the eye of a hurricane. This is where the most severe weather, and highest sustained winds are usually reported.
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what front is the slowest and after leaves bad it has passed over leaves bad weather behind?
A cold front
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what is the most chased after storm in the U.S. ?
Tornado
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Can it snow from clear skies?
Yes. Ice crystals sometimes fall from clear skies when temperatures are in the single digits or colder.
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When are thunderstorms most likely to happen?
During the spring and summer months in the afternoon and evening hours.
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Hurricanes that occur in the Pacific Ocean are referred to as ?
typhoons
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When a warm air masses gently slides on top of a cold air mass, and you have drizzly rain and then beautiful sunny weather, what front is it?
Warm front
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A _________ is a cone shaped cloud that doesn't reach the ground?
Funnel cloud
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On the average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow?
a. 10 inches b. 1 inch c. 5 inches d. a foot
a. 10 inches of snow melts down to about an inch of liquid rain.
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what happens when thunderstorms are occuring?
Lightning.
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During a hurricane what should someone do?
go to high ground due to flooding
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A/an _____________ is a large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth's surface over which it develops and has the same density and moisture content?
Air mass
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How fast can tornadoes move?
300 miles per hour
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What is the difference between sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
Hail is a chunk or stone of ice dropped from a thunderstorm. Sleet is frozen rain. Freezing rain is liquid rain that freezes to a surface such as the road or a tree.
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If you hear a thunderstorm coming, what should you do?
Go immediately inside a building or vehicle with a metal top and side.
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This storm starts up over the ocean, builds up and comes inland. It has a calm area in the center called an eye?
hurricane
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Where would you find a tropical maritime air mass?