What type of cloud is thin and has wispy strands located 16500 feet or above?
What is a Cirrus Cloud
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Where do hurricanes usually form?
Hurricanes usually form in tropical regions.
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How do you measure the strength of a tornado?
You measure a tornado based on its destruction and the scale that is used is the EF scale. (F1 to F5)
100
What Air Mass is cold and dry?
What is a continental polar
100
What weather tool measures air temperature?
What is a Thermometer
200
What cloud is fluffy and gives little to no precipitation?
What is a Cumulus cloud
200
What fuels hurricanes?
What is water vapor
200
How do tornadoes form?
Warm moist air and cold dry air to mix and that creates a tornado because it creates instability in the atmosphere.
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What air mass is hot and dry?
What is a continental tropical
200
What weather tool measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period?
What is a Rain Gauge
300
What type of cloud is low to the ground and has a precipitation of drizzle, snow, or rain.
What is a Stratus cloud
300
How do you measure a hurricane?
Pressure, wind speed, storm surge and damage potential to put hurricanes into 5 categories.
300
Where is tornado alley?
Tornado alley is located in the mid-west of north america (from Minnesota to Texas)
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What air mass is hot and moist?
What is a maritime tropical
300
What weather tool determines the direction from which wing is blowing?
What is a Wind Vane
400
What type of cloud is dark and wide spread and precipitation usually evaporates before hitting the grounds. (Usually fog)
What is a Nimbostratus cloud
400
What is the center of the hurricane called?
What is the eye
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How long does the average tornado last?
The average tornado lasts ten minutes.
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What air mass is cold and moist?
What is a maritime polar
400
What weather tool measures wind speed?
What is a Anemometer
500
What type of cloud is very tall and very large and has often intense precipitation.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud
500
How long do hurricanes last?
Hurricanes can last from a few hours to a few weeks
500
When is tornado season?
Tornado season starts in March and ends June
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Where do air masses form?
What is source regions (an extensive region of the earth's surface where large masses of air having uniform temperature and humidity conditions characteristic of the region originate.)