Meteorology B

[bernard]

Question Marathons Explained

[treesdea]

Let's start this off with some basic knowledge!
1. What year was Hurricane Katrina?
2. List two possible factors in the development of a mudslide.
3. What category hurricane was Hurricane Ida?
4. Define a tornado outbreak.
5. Name some procedures to follow whenever a blizzard hits.
6. Name the hurricane that hit Southern California in 2023.

[Banana2020]

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1. 2005
2. heavyish precipitation, and little foliage/plants/trees etc. 
3. 4
4. same synoptic system, usually 2 or more supercells or areas of general rotation that spawn like 8ish thunderstorms to be classified as an outbreak
5. Literally don't go outside, don't drive, stay alert and updated, make sure you have emergency supplies
6. Hilary

My questions now!
1. How does a panhandle hook originate, what type of storm is it, what conditions favor it?
2. Say a meteorologist intends to look at the potential vorticity in an area to try to determine if conditions will be favorable for Severe Storms, what types of observation might he look at, how are these obtained, how would he go about finding them?
3. In the tropics over the warm oceans, clouds which penetrate the boundary layer inversion and rise as high as 5 km are very common. However, most such clouds do not develop
into deep convective clouds. Why not?
4. It is difficult for traditional weather forecast models to make accurate predictions of hurricane intensity. Specify and briefly discuss two specific challenges traditional forecast
models encounter when trying to make hurricane intensity forecasts. These should be challenges that do not ordinarily give rise to errors in day to day forecasting.
5. Under what conditions would an unsaturated air parcel not follow the dry adiabat in a thermodynamic diagram?
6. Can thunderstorms utilize all the CAPE present?

[aptdon]

Here are two more mathematical questions to get some application-based thinking started as well before scaling into severe storm specific mathematical problems!

1. City A is at 2700 feet and City B is at 7400 feet. Assuming the air is dry, DALR is 9.8 centigrade per kilometer, and temperature is only changed through adiabatic processes, what is the temperature at City B if City A is currently 75 degrees Fahrenheit?

2. Take the previous question, except add that the dew point is 20 centigrade and MALR is 5.8 centigrade per kilometer. What is the temperature at City B with this added information? (Assume dew point remains constant)

3. Bonus question: What is the Lifted Condensation Level in question 2?