Exam 19: Weather Patterns and Severe Weather

Hurricanes form between the latitudes of 5 degrees and 20 degrees.

What type of front is illustrated in the diagram below?

Tornadoes most often move TOWARDS what direction?

In the Northern Hemisphere,tornadoes are most frequent during the ________.

On a weather map,________ fronts are shown by a line with triangular points on one side.

Tropical cyclones,which are called hurricanes in the Atlantic,are called ________ in the western Pacific

Tornadoes are most often generated along the cold front of a middle-latitude cyclone.

Air masses that form in the Gulf of Mexico are classified as mT.

Cold fronts and warm fronts in the middle latitudes are often associated with a ________.

Intense tropical cyclones with winds above 109 kph are called hurricanes,typhoons,or cyclones,depending on the part of the world where they form.

In the folk song "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm," the singer describes an event during the Galveston hurricane of 1900: "The trains they were loaded,with people leaving town,but the tracks gave way with the water,the trains they went on down." What hurricane phenomena was the author of this song describing?

This air mass may produce an occasional "nor'easter" in the winter.

tornado cyclone anticyclone hurricane

In Hurricane Katrina,the storm came ashore heading almost due north and the eye passed between the towns of Slidell,Louisiana and Waveland,Mississippi.Slidell,LA suffered heavy flooding and moderate wind damage while Waveland,MS was totally destroyed without a single building standing within 200m of the coastline.Both cities experienced the eyewall of the storm where the winds are strongest,so why was the destruction so different?

At the center of a hurricane is a relatively calm region called the ________.