Weather Jeopardy!

Fronts

100

This kind of front brings cooler temperatures and sometimes chances of severe weather

Cold Front

200

This kind of front is characterized by an increase in temperatures and gentle, prolonged rainfall.

Warm Front

300

Fronts are usually attached to a ___ pressure system.

Low

400

This kind of front a non-moving boundary between cold and warm air where neither has enough strength to displace the other.

Stationary Front

500

This type of front is when a fast-moving cold front overtakes a slower warm front.

Occluded Front

Atmospheric Hazards

100

This hazard is usually accompanied by a large clap of thunder afterward.

Lightning

200

This U.S. state saw the most tornadoes in 2025.

Texas

300

Hurricanes that form in the Northwest Pacific Ocean and affect East Asian countries are called this.

Typhoons

400

In the U.S., this hazard kills more people each year than tornadoes, hurricanes, and lightning.

Flood

500

Tornadoes are rated on the EF-Scale, and EF stands for this.

Enhanced Fujita

NLI Weather Alumni

100

Everybody's favorite Canadian! This NLI Weather alum graduated last spring and now works in Ontario.

Jay Lesyk

200

This NLI Weather alum was Chief Weather Forecaster from 2023 to 2024 and now works with BAM Weather in the Indianapolis area.

Hope Kleitsch

300

Graduating in 2024, this alum got a job at KOTA in Rapid City, South Dakota and is living the dream in the Great Plains.

Ryan Hill

400

This NLI Weather alum recently went national for appearing on the Pat McAfee show after having to interrupt NFL for severe weather coverage.

Adam Feick

500

This alum graduated from Ball State in 2018, now works at FOX59 in Indianapolis and stops by campus occasionally.

Ethan Rosuck