NWS Glossary
A line connecting points of equal dew point temperature
What is a Isodrosotherm?
This long-running animated sitcom is set in the fictional town of Springfield.
What is the Simpsons?
Located in the northwest corner, this is the only large natural lake in the state. It was famously formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes, which caused the Mississippi River to flow backward and fill a sunken forest.
The Bluegrass State
What is Kentucky?
A wind that is affected by coriolis force, blows parallel to isobars and whose strength is related to the pressure gradient (i.e., spacing of the isobars).
He was the first voice of Mickey Mouse, providing the character's signature falsetto from 1928 until 1947.
Who was Walt Disney?
In 1903, these two brothers achieved the first powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
This large desert covering parts of Nevada, Utah, and California is the largest desert in the United States.
What is the Great Basin Desert?
A computer forecast or prediction based on equations governing the motions and the forces affecting motion of fluids. The equations are based, or initialized, on specified weather or climate conditions at a certain place and time.
What is Numerical Forecasting?
This sitcom set in Scranton, Pennsylvania follows employees of the Dunder Mifflin paper company.
What is The Office?
This 1930s environmental disaster on the Great Plains was worsened by drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, is primarily located in this South American country.
Where is Chile?
The phenomenon in which a low-level cold air mass is trapped topographically. Often, this cold air is entrenched on the east side of mountainous terrain.
What is Cold Air Damming?
This reality-style Weather Channel show follows storm chasers pursuing tornadoes across the Plains.
What is Storm Chasers?
John Stith Pemberton, a pharmacist, invented this drink in 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia.
What is Coca-Cola?
Burger King was originally founded in 1954 in this U.S. state.
What is Florida?
A region of dry air subsiding on the back side of, and wrapping around, a mesocyclone. It often is visible as a clear slot wrapping around the wall cloud. Scattered large precipitation particles (rain and hail) at the interface between the clear slot and wall cloud may show up on radar as a hook or pendant.
What is Rear Flank Downdraft?
This classic 1970s–80s game show featured celebrity panelists trying to match contestants’ answers to fill-in-the-blank questions.
What is Match Game?
This was one of the most intense and unusual derechos ever observed. The wind storm produced significant and often continuous damage over a broad swath from the high plains of western Kansas to the foothills of the Appalachians in eastern Kentucky.
Multiple wind gusts in excess of 70 mph (113 km/h) and a few gusts over 90 mph (145 km/h) were measured along its path.
What was the May 8, 2009 Super Derecho?
This plateau in Central Asia, averaging over 4,500 meters in elevation, is often called the “Roof of the World.”
What is Tibetan Plateau?