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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is The Numbers Game

Welcome! The Topic For Today Is The Numbers Game. The Numbers Game. Explain the 850 Temps: 200. Question: Zero Degrees Celsius Answer What is an estimate of the rain-snow line?. Back. Explain the 850 Temps : 400. Question: 20C on a sunny day Answer

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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is The Numbers Game

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  1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is The Numbers Game

  2. The Numbers Game

  3. Explain the 850 Temps: 200 • Question: • Zero Degrees Celsius • Answer • What is an estimate of the rain-snow line? Back

  4. Explain the 850 Temps : 400 • Question: • 20C on a sunny day • Answer • What is threshold for 100F (east of the mts)? Back

  5. Explain the 850 Temps : 600 • Question: • -20C in January • Answer • What an estimate of Zero(F) at night (isothermal)? Back

  6. Explain the 850 Temps : 800 • Question: • 7C:Temp; -15C Dew point in March • Answer • What is a wet bulb zero that could produce snow after a day in the 50’s! Back

  7. Explain the 850 Temps : 1000 • Question: • 5C on a calm night in September • Answer • What will produce widespread valley fog Back

  8. Estimate the 500mb heights: 200 • Question: • At this level in an Atlantic hurricane. • Answer • What is 580dm? Back

  9. Estimate the 500mb heights : 400 • Question: • In the blizzard of March, 1993. • Answer • What is 494dm? Back

  10. Estimate the 500mb heights : 600 • Question: • During a typical snowstorm in PA. • Answer • What is 552dm? Back

  11. Estimate the 500mb heights : 800 • Question: • In a heat wave in New England. • Answer • What is 594dm? Back

  12. Estimate the 500mb heights : 1000 • Question: • During a winter cold snap in Florida. • Answer • What is 546dm? Back

  13. Predict the 1000-500mb Thickness: 200 • Question: • When Philadelphia hits 100F. • Answer • What is more than 576dm? Back

  14. Predict the 1000-500mb Thickness : 400 • Question: • When it snows in Denver during October. • Answer • What is 555dm? Back

  15. Predict the 1000-500mb Thickness : 600 • Question: • During a record low in INL in January. • Answer • What is less than 490dm? Back

  16. Predict the 1000-500mb Thickness : 800 • Question: • During a heat wave in September in southern California. • Answer • What is more than 580dm? Back

  17. Predict the 1000-500mb Thickness : 1000 • Question: • During a snowstorm in Seattle. • Answer • What is less than 522dm? Back

  18. The Wind Direction: 200 • Question: • Lake Effect snow at Erie, PA • Answer • What is 280 degrees? Back

  19. The Wind Direction : 400 • Question: • Heat spell in Richmond, VA • Answer • What is 300 degrees? Back

  20. The Wind Direction : 600 • Question: • Heat wave in Los Angeles. • Answer • What is an east wind (030-130 degrees)? Back

  21. The Wind Direction : 800 • Question: • Cold wave in Brownsville, TX. • Answer • What is 340 degrees? Back

  22. The Wind Direction : 1000 • Question: • Lake effect in Toldeo, OH. • Answer • What is 090 (east wind)? Back

  23. Surface Pressure: 200 • Question: • Highest in the contiguous United States. • Answer • What is 31.42” or 1064mb? Back

  24. Surface Pressure: 400 • Question: • Lowest pressure in Florida. • Answer • What is 26.35” or 892mb ? Back

  25. Surface Pressure: 600 • Question: • Mean annual at Atlantic City. • Answer • What is 1013.6mb (30.00”) Back

  26. Surface Pressure: 800 • Question: • Station pressure at State College • Answer • What is 970mb? Back

  27. Surface Pressure: 1000 • Question: • The highest pressure in PA. • Answer • What is 31.10 inches or 1053mb? Back

  28. Daily Double Select how much you are willing to risk…. The Topic is Hurricanes

  29. Bonus Question: 5000 pts. • Question: • According to Quasi-geostrophic theory, PVA is a source of upward motion provided the winds increase with height. How do we get such strong vertical motions in a hurricane with the strongest winds below 700mb? • Answer • Because there is actually NVA above this level due to the ridge aloft over the storm! Back

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