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Weather Watch: Clouds, Wind and Storms

From wispy cirrus to the calm eye of a hurricane: find out whether your forecasting skills are set fair or heading for a downpour.

🔬 Science medium 20 questions ~7 min

What this quiz asks

Which instrument measures air pressure?
Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Towering, anvil-topped clouds like this one, which bring thunderstorms, are called what?
What does an anemometer measure?
Which clouds are the high, thin, wispy ones made of ice crystals?
What is a tornado that forms over water usually called?
Hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones are the same type of storm, named differently depending on where they form.
Do hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere spin anticlockwise?
What is the calm, often clear centre of a hurricane called?
On a weather map, what are the lines joining places with equal air pressure called?
Select ALL of these that count as precipitation.
A monsoon is simply another word for a very heavy rainstorm.
On the Saffir-Simpson scale, hurricanes are rated from Category 1 up to which category?
Which climate pattern, a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific, takes its Spanish name from the Christ child?
What minimum sustained wind speed turns a tropical storm into a hurricane, in km/h?
Select ALL of these that are named local winds.
Order these Beaufort scale descriptions from the weakest wind to the strongest.
Which scale is used in the United States to rate the strength of tornadoes?
What kind of weather front forms when a cold front catches up with a warm front?
Who gave clouds Latin names such as cumulus, stratus and cirrus in a talk given in 1802?