Weather Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What does an anemometer measure?
A: Wind Speed.
The Campbell-Stokes recorder measures what with a
glass
ball?
A: Sunshine.
Cirrus is a cloud type, but what is its literal translation
from Latin?
A: Lock of Hair.
In the United States each year there are an average of 708
what?
A: Tornados.
What is Virga?
A: Rain that doesn't reach ground.
What line on a map connects places of equal rainfall?
A: Isohyat.
What is measured on the Torro scale?
A: Tornados.
From the Arabic mawsim meaning season, what word is
derived?
A: Monsoon.
On the Beaufort scale what is defined as force 11?
A: A Storm.
On average it rains 4 days a week in what European capital?
A: Amsterdam.
What is measured with an ombrometer?
A: Rainfall.
The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to measure the intensity
of what?
A: Hurricanes.
An eight on the Beaufort scale represents what?
A: A Gale.
Bognor Java gets on average 322 days annually with what
occurrence?
A: Lightning strikes.
Technically they are hydrometeors, but what is a more
common name for them?
A: Hailstones.
A 25 to 31 mph wind on the Beaufort scale is called what?
A: Strong Breeze.
What are sprites, blur jets, and elves?
A: Thunderstorm electrical discharges
A pogonip is what type of weather condition?
A: Heavy winter fog with ice crystals.
In 1848, The London Daily News carried the worlds first
what?
A: Weather forecast.
Raquel Welch was once a what?
A: Weathergirl.
What type of bad weather can stop the play of a
game of
golf?
A: Only Lightning.
What does a haboob create?
A: Sandstorm, it's a desert
wind.
What was the name of the first storm, on June 19, 1978
named after a man?
A: Bud.
Tefnut was the Egyptian goddess of what?
A: Rain.
What are Ombrophobes afraid of?
A: Rain.
What do nephologists study?
A: Clouds - Meteorology.
In July 1923, what killed 23 people in Rostov
Russia?
A: Giant Hailstones.
What's the difference between fog and mist?
A: Seeing Distance under 1000 yards is mist.
There is one gallon of water in every cubic mile of what?
A: Fog.