Weather Trivia

3. The most common and weakest type of thunderstorm
10. A weather device that is dropped out of an aircraft to take measurements of the atmosphere
11. A global weather model from Germany
12. An alternative to 10:1 ratio model snowfall maps
13. A term used to describe the strong and dry downslope winds that mainly affect southern California in the cooler months
14. A city in Japan that averages 312 inches of snow per year, making it the snowiest city in the world
16. The temperature range where snowflakes are made
18. Found in the upper right-hand corner on soundings
20. A measure of instability in the atmosphere

1. A type of storm that commonly hits the eastern US in winter
2. The temperature, in °C, that water needs to be in order to support a hurricane
4. The periodic variation in the winds and sea surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean
5. A commonly used nickname referring to the incredibly intense winter storm that hit the Eastern US in March 1993
6. A non-frontal low pressure system that has characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones and maximum sustained winds of less than 39 mph
7. A devastating and record-breaking tornado that tracked 219 miles on March 18, 1925
8. The NATL hurricane with the lowest pressure of recorded
9. A whirling motion of fluid or air
15. The US state that gets the second most number of hurricanes
17. This is what HRRR stands for
19. A widespread, long-lived, and intense line of damaging wind-producing thunderstorms