week 5
1. Explain how observed teleconnection patterns can help in the preparation of a seasonal weather forecast. Climate teleconnection is used for range climate predictions. Forecasters can use this to determine weather patterns out a few days to several years.
2. If the temperature is dropping and the dew point is holding steady, what is your forecast for the relative humidity? If the temperature drops and dew point is holding steady the humidity will go up. As air cools down it can’t hold much water, which saturates the air increase the humidity.
3. Severe Thunderstorms differ from ordinary cell thunderstorms have a tilted updraft in the mature stage. Severe Thunderstorms most have one of the following conditions Hail of 1inch or more, wind gust of 50knots or more or a tornado. Some conditions can be random, turbulent eddies that lift small bubbles of air, unequal heating at the surface.
4. Florida has the greatest annual number of thunderstorms because the Maritime tropical air masses surround the peninsula and the peninsula heats and high temperatures during the day. Florida does have a lot of tornado activity but only because of the many daily thunderstorms and it is also a pit stop for many tropical storms and hurricanes.
5. The region of greatest tornado activity shifts northward from early spring to mid-summer because in the spring, humid Gulf air moves northward as do contrasting air masses, so tornadoes are most prevalent in southern Atlantic states and southern Great Plains. In the summer, contrast between air masses lessens and jet stream is near the northern plains eastward to New York.
2. If the temperature is dropping and the dew point is holding steady, what is your forecast for the relative humidity? If the temperature drops and dew point is holding steady the humidity will go up. As air cools down it can’t hold much water, which saturates the air increase the humidity.
3. Severe Thunderstorms differ from ordinary cell thunderstorms have a tilted updraft in the mature stage. Severe Thunderstorms most have one of the following conditions Hail of 1inch or more, wind gust of 50knots or more or a tornado. Some conditions can be random, turbulent eddies that lift small bubbles of air, unequal heating at the surface.
4. Florida has the greatest annual number of thunderstorms because the Maritime tropical air masses surround the peninsula and the peninsula heats and high temperatures during the day. Florida does have a lot of tornado activity but only because of the many daily thunderstorms and it is also a pit stop for many tropical storms and hurricanes.
5. The region of greatest tornado activity shifts northward from early spring to mid-summer because in the spring, humid Gulf air moves northward as do contrasting air masses, so tornadoes are most prevalent in southern Atlantic states and southern Great Plains. In the summer, contrast between air masses lessens and jet stream is near the northern plains eastward to New York.