Historical Weather Related Events
According to legend, a cow kicked over a gas lamp starting this fire.
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
Liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and become heavy enough to fall under gravity.
What is rain?
A violent, funnel-shaped cloud with very strong winds.
How does a hurricane see?
With one eye
a phrase that includes animals to describe severe weather
A famous boat hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
What is snow?
A large tropical storm that forms over warm water.
What is a hurricane?
What is a tornado’s favorite desert? funnel cake
A funnel cake
A phrase that describes a period or peace before a difficult time.
One of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, it was ranked as the sixth strongest overall to hit the United States.
A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
What is sleet?
A large amount of water somewhere it is not supposed to be.
What is a flood?
What do you call a snowman’s party? - a snowball
A snowball
a phrase for a person who stops being a friend in times of difficulty
This city was covered by volcanic ash and preserved for many years.
What is Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii?
Rounded pieces of pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is hail?
A natural disaster caused by tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
How do you fix a broken pumpkin?
a phrase expressing that difficult situations tend to follow each other or happen all at once
A recent natural disaster that started in the ocean as an earthquake resulting in a large amount of water hitting Thailand.
What is a tsunami?
The name given to rain precipitation that freezes on contact on surfaces maintained at temperature below freezing by the ambient air mass
What is freezing rain?
A natural disaster caused by a lack of water.
What is a drought?
Why do bananas use sunscreen?
Because they peel
to do or say something to get a conversation going when meeting someone for the first time.