Extreme Weather Terminology
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Play this candy crush style game and learn weather terms from bomb cyclone to sharknado!
Topics of this game:
- Cloud droplets combining with gaseous pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make falling rain or snow acidic.
- Rapid intensification of a cyclone with surface pressure expected to fall by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours
- The development of a cyclone, or a storm system.
- A storm that runs along the East Coast of North America
- A relatively rarely seen event, generally consisting of an orange or reddish ball of moderate luminosity in the sky,
- A storm system that develops near the Province of Alberta in Canada and moves rapidly east-southeast into the Great Lakes and on into the Northeast
- The weight of the air above us
- A Mongolian term for a severe winter in which large number of livestock die, primarily due to starvation due to being unable to graze, in other cases directly from the freezing cold.
- A sudden soil expansion caused by water that has frozen quickly after seeping into the ground often accompanied by thunder like booms.
- A tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar. Take shelter immediately.
- Arabic meteorological term for a dust storm.
- A pirate term for any cloud formation or weather phenomenon that may indicate an upcoming storm
- A rise above the normal water level along a shore caused by strong onshore winds and/or reduced atmospheric pressure.
- Frozen precipitation in the form of layered lumps of ice produced by convection within cumulonimbus clouds.
- A column of rotating wind over water that has characteristics of a tornado
- A rotating, distinctly shaped cloud extending below the base of a thunderstorm. When it reaches the ground, it is called a tornado.
- Severe weather characterized by frequent wind gusts at least 35 miles per hour and reduced visibility from blowing snow last three hours or longer.
- A thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft. Typically also classified as severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes most commonly form from these kinds of storms.
- A tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E. Similar to hurricanes, and require winds 74 mph (64 knots) or greater.
- A flood which is caused by heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time, generally less than 6 hours.
- All of the various forms of electrical discharge produced by thunderstorms.
- Large, unexpected and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous, even to large ships such as ocean liners
- A period of abnormally hot weather lasting several days.
- A persistent seasonal wind, often responsible for seasonal precipitation regime. It is most commonly used to describe meteorological changes in southern and eastern Asia.
- Flashes of light seen near the horizon on warm evenings. Visible lightning from a distant storm or possibly the reflection of distant lightning on high clouds but too distant to hear the accompanying thunder.
- A frost severe enough to destroy annual plants and new growth on trees (in the spring) or to end the growing season (in the fall).
- A circumpolar wind circulation which isolates the Antarctic continent during the cold Southern Hemisphere winter, heightening ozone depletion.
- Optical phenomena when light is refracted and reflected by moisture in the air into concentric arcs of color.
- A fictional waterspout that lifts man-eating sharks out of the ocean and floods a nearby city with shark-infested seawater.
- Fog containing suspended ice crystals. Ice fog can form only in extremely cold areas of the world
