A weather ____________________ indicates that atmospheric conditions favor hazardous weather occurring over a particular region during a specified time period. A weather ____________________, on the other hand, indicates that hazardous weather is either imminent or actually occurring within the specified forecast area. Advisories are issued to inform the public of less hazardous conditions caused by wind, dust, fog, snow, sleet, or freezing rain.
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Q. 2If low clouds at an elevation of 3000 ft above you are moving from the southeast, and clouds about 8000 ft higher are moving from the southwest ____________________ advection is taking place between the cloud layers.
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Q. 3Given a map with isallobars, high pressure systems tend to move where the isallobars indicate ____________________ values, and low pressure systems move where the isallobars are ____________________.
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Q. 4The analysis of a(n) ____ can be especially helpful when making a short-range forecast that covers a relatively small area, such as the mesoscale.
a. sounding
b. meteogram
c. Doppler radar image
d. thick chart
e. index
Q. 5In the course of a single workday, a typical forecaster may examine and compare ____ individual weather maps.
a. five
b. seven
c. ten
d. dozens of
e. thousands of
Q. 6Surface weather information is provided by more than ____ land-based stations and hundreds of ships and buoys providing surface weather information at least four times a day.
a. 100
b. 10,000
c. 100,000
d. 1,000,000
e. 10,000,000
Q. 7Suppose that where you live, the middle of January is typically several degrees warmer than the rest of the month. If you forecast this January thaw for the middle of next January, what type of a weather forecast will you have made?
a. ensemble forecast
b. common forecast
c. seasonal outlook
d. nowcast
e. probability forecast
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