- RQFTCIFFF12 Game 2, Rounds 7-8: CanArt, weather - 5 Updates
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Dec 23 01:31PM > * Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather > 1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado > intensity? Fujita > 2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping > the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of > North America relatively cool? Humboldt > 3. What kind of storm is a haboob? sandstorm > 4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which > state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum, > and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year. Hawaii > 6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that > connect places of equal air pressure? isobars > 7. Name the 1992 hurricane that hit southern Florida, causing > $26,500,000,000 US of damage, a record at the time. Andrew > the monthly national GDP dropped by almost 1% in January of > the year of the event. Name this weather disaster (for full > points include the year, within 1). Blizzard of 1977 > near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy > weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft, > lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon. St. Elmo's Fire > from the observer that no thunder can be heard? It is sometimes > confused with "dry lightning" because often it's not raining > at the observer's location. heat lightning -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 23 08:27PM +0100 > * Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Weather > 1. What is the name of the scale used for measuring tornado > intensity? Beaufort (well, at least it's wind scale.) > 2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping > the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of > North America relatively cool? Labrador > 4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which > state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum, > and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year. Hawaii > 6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that > connect places of equal air pressure? Isobar |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 23 05:30PM -0600 Mark Brader: > I will reveal the correct answers in about 3 days. Sorry, make that 5 days (from the original posting). -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "This is as 'real' as your so-called life gets!" msb@vex.net | "Q Who", ST:TNG, Maurice Hurley |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: Dec 23 07:22PM -0600 Mark Brader wrote: > 2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping > the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of > North America relatively cool? La Nina > 4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which > state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum, > and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year. Hawaii > parts of Canada where they occur? > 6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that > connect places of equal air pressure? Isobars > 7. Name the 1992 hurricane that hit southern Florida, causing > $26,500,000,000 US of damage, a record at the time. Andrew > from the observer that no thunder can be heard? It is sometimes > confused with "dry lightning" because often it's not raining > at the observer's location. Pete Gayde |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Dec 23 06:07PM -0800 On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 3:38:19 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote: > We give you the name of a well-known Canadian artist, and you > give us the number corresponding to one of their works. > 1. Tom Thomson. 1; 2 > 2. Lawren Harris. 3; 4 > 3. Norval Morrisseau. 5; 6 > 4. Alex Colville. 7; 8 > 5. Jean Paul Riopelle. 9; 10 > 6. Ken Danby. 11; 12 > 7. Emily Carr. 13; 14 > 8. Arthur Lismer. 15; 16 > 9. Kathleen Munn. 17; 18 > 10. Frederick Verner. 1; 2 > 2. What name is given to the ocean current responsible for keeping > the ocean waters and air temperatures off the western coast of > North America relatively cool? Gulf Stream > 4. The wettest place in the United States is located in which > state? This locale average about 500 inches of rain per annum, > and precipitation falls on over 90% of the days in the year. Hawaii > 6. What is the name given to lines on a meteorological map that > connect places of equal air pressure? isobars > near 1,000 volts per centimeter. It often occurs during stormy > weather and might be seen on a ship's mast or yardarm, aircraft, > lightning rods, and steeples. Name this weather phenomenon. St. Elmo's Fire -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
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