Tornadoes
The strongest tornadoes are formed from these.
What are supercells?
A cloud is formed from this.
What are evaporated water and dust particles?
Found at the center of the hurricane, it can provide sunny, clear weather.
What is the eye?
This temperature is required for snow.
What is 32 degrees?
He discovered electricity by flying a kite during a thunderstorm.
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
The circling air in a tornado.
What is a mesocyclone?
Also known as a rain cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
This deadly category 5 hurricane flooded New Orleans killed 1,800 people and caused $125 billion dollars in damage.
What is Katrina?
When cold temperatures cause water molecules to turn solid and fall towards the surface of the Earth.
What is hail?
A person who studies weather.
What is a climatologist or meteorologist?
This letter and number combination is used to identify the strongest type of tornado.
What is F-5?
When a warm layer of air sits above a cold shallow layer.
What is an ice storm?
The slowest speeds wind must travel in order for a storm to be considered a hurricane.
What is 75 mph?
This type of rain will cause your penny to turn green.
These orbiting devices are used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth and are used by scientists to "read" and "predict" the weather.
What are satellites?
Often looking like a tornado, it's a spinning column of water droplets.
What are water spouts?
This cloud is often mistaken as a UFO.
What is a lenticular cloud.
In the northern hemisphere, hurricanes rotate in this direction, opposite of the hands of a clock.
What is counter-clockwise?
A seasonal down-pouring of heavy rain sometimes lasting weeks or months.
What is a monsoon?
The name for someone who actively tries to find severe storms.
What are storm chasers?
The name for an area running through the center of the United States where tornadoes are most frequent.
What is tornado alley?
This event can cause blizzard like conditions that last throughout the winter.
What is a Polar-Vortex
Most hurricanes that reach the U.S. form of the coast of this continent.
What is Africa?
A lack of rain or precipitation over a long period of time.
What is a drought?
Someone who might be at the end of a spectacular ray of color caused by sunlight passing through rain drops.
What is a leprechaun?