Mec 1 Weather stuff

Question 1

What sky is considered a mackerel sky?

Accepted Answer

cirrocumulus

Question 2

What are the 2 most important cloud types?

Accepted Answer

towering cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds

Question 3

Which atmospheric layer contains aurora

Accepted Answer

mesosphere

Question 4

what are stratus clouds?

Accepted Answer

flat

Question 5

Where is the WMO located?

Accepted Answer

Geneva, Switzerland

Question 6

Whats the 14th squadrons mission

Accepted Answer

to collect, protect and exploit authoritative climate data, climatology

Question 7

What days nd month is the sun traveling over the equator in a northward direction

Accepted Answer

march 20/21

Question 8

What is drift?

Accepted Answer

speed measured in knots

Question 9

What is the mission of the WMO?

Accepted Answer

responsible for collectin information from meteor Hydro climate and weather, From satellites aircraft bouys, And land base stations

Question 10

What does Sm stand for?

Accepted Answer

statue Miles

Question 11

what side of the mountain would be windward

Accepted Answer

when the average wind direction is towards the mountain

Question 12

What is the abbreviation for the cold currents

Accepted Answer

CCPBW

Question 13

Which agencies have U.S. Navy personnel providing weather support for DoD missions?

Accepted Answer

FNMOC, and the JTWC

Question 14

Where is the NHC( national hurricane center) located?

Accepted Answer

university park, Fl

Question 15

What are one of the distinctive features of a tropical climate?

Accepted Answer

rainy all year, rainy summer with dry winter, tropical savanna/moonsoon

Question 16

Where is the 557th weather wing located

Accepted Answer

offutt , Nebraska

Question 17

Warm currents come from the equator and go to the poles

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What’s the NWS mission?

Accepted Answer

provide weather, water, and climate data, forecasts and warnings in the Us

Question 19

What is a partial obscuration

Accepted Answer

obscruring phenomena covering part of the celestial dome

Question 20

What happens during a costal downwelling

Accepted Answer

the water goes toward the island due to wind, pushes the other water down

Question 21

Where is the national organic and atmospheric administration located?

Accepted Answer

Washington DC

Question 22

What season is the vernal equinox?

Accepted Answer

spring

Question 23

What is considered an overcast in the sky?

Accepted Answer

8/8 of the sky covered

Question 24

How many high and low tides are there for semidiurnal?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 25

Stratosphere contains what?

Accepted Answer

the ozone layer

Question 26

What does VV stand for

Accepted Answer

vertical visibility

Question 27

What is an obscuring phenomena?

Accepted Answer

any surface based, element reducing visibility

Question 28

what is the abbreviation for warm currents?

Accepted Answer

EMKBG

Question 29

What part of the military is the 14th weather squadron apart of

Accepted Answer

Air Force

Question 30

What is one of the missions fof the NOAA( national oceanic and atmospheric administration)

Accepted Answer

To conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources, To understand and predict the changes the weather climate oceans and coast

Question 31

Where is the only place altocumulus standing lenticular clouds form?

Accepted Answer

mountains

Question 32

What is considered a broken(bkn) sky?

Accepted Answer

5-7/ 8 of the sky covered

Question 33

Warm ocean currents decrease the annual temperature ranges

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

What is a “ceiling“

Accepted Answer

lowest layer that covers more then half of the celestial dome

Question 35

Fnmoc location?

Accepted Answer

monterey , Cali

Question 36

Mesothermal climates have very short springs and autumns

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

Where is the high etage located?

Accepted Answer

16,500ft-45,000ft

Question 38

a steppe is driest in the summer

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

Polar zone has 2 inches or less of precipitation

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

Where is the 14th weather squadron located?

Accepted Answer

Asheville NC

Question 41

Where is the NCEI (national center for environmental information) located

Accepted Answer

Asheville North Carolina

Question 42

What are the 2 atmospheric layers that warm with height?

Accepted Answer

stratosphere and thermosphere

Question 43

What is the Jtwc‘s mission (typhoons)

Accepted Answer

To issue warnings for the northern and southern pacific, and Indian Ocean

Question 44

Where is theJoint Typhoon Warning Center located?

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor, hawaii

Question 45

What is the mission of 557th weather wing?

Accepted Answer

to expliot timely and accurate weather data at anytime and anywhere

Question 46

What is the mission of the NCEI?

Accepted Answer

to build climatological products

Question 47

What is the NHC used for

Accepted Answer

save lives, mitigate property loss, by issuing weather watches and warnings

Question 48

Where is the NWS located? (National weather service)

Accepted Answer

Springfield, Maryland

Question 49

What’s FNMOC’s mission?

Accepted Answer

to provide meteorological, oceanographic, and climatological support to US

Question 50

What are wind waves

Accepted Answer

ripples in oceanic surfaces created by wind direction and speed

Question 51

Cumulus or cumulo normally associates with what type of cloud

Accepted Answer

poofy clouds

Question 52

What does equinox mean?

Accepted Answer

equal

Question 53

What is the definition of a celestial dome?

Accepted Answer

the amount of sky not including any obstructions

Question 54

What is runway visibility

Accepted Answer

The greatest distance pilots can see along the active runway

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