WX 201 Mazon || with Errorless Answers.
TS over the desert southwest are most common during ____. correct answers mid-late afternoon
A wall cloud is correct answers a rotating cloud hanging beneath updraft of a supercell
A boundary between dry and moist tropical air masses that may act as a thunderstorm trigger:
correct answers dry line
Globally, thunderstorms are most common: correct answers along the ITCZ and tropical land
areas
Severe thunderstorms and squall lines are most common _____. correct answers in the warm air
ahead of a surface cold front
After the heavy convective precipitation from a squall line ends, I will most likely observe____.
correct answers lighter precipitation in a trailing stratiform region
Over tropical oceans, thunderstorms are most likely to occur ____. correct answers in the early
morning
A group of thunderstorm cells which develop in a small group or line one next to the other, each
in a different stage of development, is called: correct answers a multicell thunderstorm
Severe supercell TS comprise about ___% of all TS. correct answers 1
A thunderstorm cell is composed entirely of downdrafts during the ____ stage. correct answers
dissipating
, Which would you NOT expect to observe if the eye of a hurricane were located directly over
your area? correct answers high winds
Do expect:
warm air temperatures
a very low surface pressure reading
clear skies above
The first three stages of a developing hurricane are (from first stage to third stage): correct
answers tropical disturbance, tropical depression, tropical storm
The main source of energy for a hurricane is the: correct answers warm ocean water and release
of latent heat of condensation
Hurricane winds rotate in a clockwise direction: correct answers in the Southern Hemisphere
only
Tropical Cyclone dies when ____ correct answers It moves over land and colder water
Poles have colder climate because correct answers Less daylight hours
Why is there wind? correct answers Heating differences and horizontal atmospheric differences
cyclogenesis correct answers the formation of a surface low pressure center/wave cyclone; air
pressure is lowered near the ground
incipient stage correct answers a wave like kink with a low pressure center begins to form
(frontal wave)
TS over the desert southwest are most common during ____. correct answers mid-late afternoon
A wall cloud is correct answers a rotating cloud hanging beneath updraft of a supercell
A boundary between dry and moist tropical air masses that may act as a thunderstorm trigger:
correct answers dry line
Globally, thunderstorms are most common: correct answers along the ITCZ and tropical land
areas
Severe thunderstorms and squall lines are most common _____. correct answers in the warm air
ahead of a surface cold front
After the heavy convective precipitation from a squall line ends, I will most likely observe____.
correct answers lighter precipitation in a trailing stratiform region
Over tropical oceans, thunderstorms are most likely to occur ____. correct answers in the early
morning
A group of thunderstorm cells which develop in a small group or line one next to the other, each
in a different stage of development, is called: correct answers a multicell thunderstorm
Severe supercell TS comprise about ___% of all TS. correct answers 1
A thunderstorm cell is composed entirely of downdrafts during the ____ stage. correct answers
dissipating
, Which would you NOT expect to observe if the eye of a hurricane were located directly over
your area? correct answers high winds
Do expect:
warm air temperatures
a very low surface pressure reading
clear skies above
The first three stages of a developing hurricane are (from first stage to third stage): correct
answers tropical disturbance, tropical depression, tropical storm
The main source of energy for a hurricane is the: correct answers warm ocean water and release
of latent heat of condensation
Hurricane winds rotate in a clockwise direction: correct answers in the Southern Hemisphere
only
Tropical Cyclone dies when ____ correct answers It moves over land and colder water
Poles have colder climate because correct answers Less daylight hours
Why is there wind? correct answers Heating differences and horizontal atmospheric differences
cyclogenesis correct answers the formation of a surface low pressure center/wave cyclone; air
pressure is lowered near the ground
incipient stage correct answers a wave like kink with a low pressure center begins to form
(frontal wave)
