1. What is a weather vane?
Measures wind direction.
2. In which ocean does El Niño occur?
Pacific
3. What is the difference between "weather" and "climate"?
Weather is right now, climate is long-term.
4. What was the name of the jazz-rock group founded in 1971 by Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul?
5. In 1803, Luke Howard devised a classification of clouds into three primary types. Can you name two of these types?
Cumulus, stratus
6. The US terrorist group the Weathermen took their name from a line in a song by which writer?
7. What is measured by the Beaufort scale?
Wind speed
8. Is an anti-cyclone a region of high or low atmospheric pressure?
High
9. What is a "weather front"?
Boundary between two different kinds of weather
10. An anemometer is an instrument for measuring what?
Wind speed.
Kel (formerly Tristan de Luna)
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce
Time is a confidence game invented by the Swiss.
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce
Time is a confidence game invented by the Swiss.
Weather
- 20/01/2012 12:47:30 PM
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- 20/01/2012 12:51:29 PM
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7/10. I didn't know 4 or 7, and I missed the coin flip on 8. (Edit: Hmm, wrong place. Oh well.)
- 20/01/2012 01:52:38 PM
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Eight is great.
- 20/01/2012 01:47:05 PM
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