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| Lake Michigan Water Temperature | 8/10/2009 |
Q: Is Lake Michigan cooler this year because we had a cool summer? I say Lake Michigan water ...
A: Inland lakes like Lake Michigan, are feed by underground springs which are quite cool, but the ...
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| Two quetions | 4/1/2008 |
Q: A couple of questions about weather prediction (a subject I know nothing about). [1] I can imagine ...
A: The National Weather Service uses primarily numerical weather prediction developed in the 1950's and ...
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| Highs and lows | 3/26/2008 |
Q: What are highs and lows on a weather map?
A: The Highs and Lows you see on the weather maps are areas where the barometric pressure is either ...
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| Thunderstorms | 3/23/2008 |
Q: Sinking air warms, yet thuderstorm downdrafts are usually cold, why?
A: Sinking air warms when going over a mountain range for example, because the air has lost it's ...
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| barometers | 2/21/2008 |
Q: What are barometers used for and what are the air pressures? Can you tell me what the air pressures ...
A: Barometers measure air pressure which is the weight of a column of air from the surface to several ...
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| Wind and Rain | 12/1/2007 |
Q: On one of the email lists I subscribe to a woman is asserting that if there is rain, there is ALWAYS ...
A: Your question is not very specific about on what level of the atmosphere you are referring to, I ...
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| Pressure and rain | 11/26/2007 |
Q: I asked this of another guy and his answer was not very informative. I am trying to figure you ...
A: You are on the right track sort of, all barometric pressure is relative to the surrounding pressure ...
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| Right Front Quadrant | 11/17/2007 |
Q: I was wondering why the right front quadrant of a hurricane is the strongest part? Is that true with ...
A: The right front quadrant of low pressure systems in the northern hemisphere is always the strongest ...
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| Wind and rain | 10/30/2007 |
Q: When it is windy does it mean that rain is coming?
A: You are correct that many times rain does precede and or follow windy conditions,but as with so many ...
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| northeastern pacific storms | 10/19/2007 |
Q: I am an amateur weather watcher, and like to see storms developing in the pacific as they move ...
A: The forecasters do notice storms for your area, they have to concentrate on those storms that pose ...
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| percentages | 10/3/2007 |
Q: When a meteorologist says it's a 70% chance of rain, does that mean that approximately 70% of the ...
A: A lot of people think what you thought, it means there is a 70% chance of precipitation anywhere in ...
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| Weather Software | 10/1/2007 |
Q: Where does the National Weather Service and other weather organizations get their software? They ...
A: The National Weather Service uses their own and specially developed software from major universities ...
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| jet streams | 9/27/2007 |
Q: in what ways does the jet stream affect our weather and climate?
A: The jet stream is a major factor in steering the low pressure regions across the nation. It ...
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| pittsburgh weather | 9/24/2007 |
Q: I'm writing a report for school on Pittsburgh geography and have to write about it's impact on ...
A: You are a bit confused about windward and leeward, I think, the urban parts of Pittsburgh are to ...
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| Tornados and Hurricanes | 9/20/2007 |
Q: What are a few major differences between tornandos and hurricanes?
A: The major difference is tornadoes occur over a much smaller geographic area than hurricanes. Also ...
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| fronts | 9/12/2007 |
Q: I read somewhere that if you stand with your back to the wind, the front is on your left (or right, ...
A: You are referring to the law of Buys Ballot,a Dutch physicist who rediscovered what William Ferrel ...
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| Weather Control | 8/4/2007 |
Q: Hey, how are you doing? I've been hearing a lot about "controlling the weather" lately on TV, in ...
A: The subject of weather modification was studied extensively in the 1960's and early seventies by the ...
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| how rain is made? | 7/21/2007 |
Q: simplewhy can't we make a device or several infact to produce rain. this would be a life altering ...
A: All kinds of weather modification and storm abatement technology was studied and tried in the 1960's ...
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| rain | 7/19/2007 |
Q: why does it rain hard sometimes and lightly others? shouldn't it all fall at the same speed?
A: The available moisture at the various levels in the atmosphere fluctuates and also convective wind ...
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| Gust fronts | 7/13/2007 |
Q: Can you tell me the name of the cloud that forms along a leading edge of a gust front?
A: The cloud on the leading edge of a gust front are surface winds from thunderstorm downdrafts ...
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| upper-level troughs | 7/11/2007 |
Q: What direction will an anticyclone move if a deep upper-level trough is located to the east of it?
A: An anticyclone is as you know an area of high pressure, and as such is heavier and denser than the ...
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| Floods | 7/2/2007 |
Q: I keep reading about the continuing rain from Kansas to Texas while the east remains pretty dry. I ...
A: The jet stream is a fast moving layer of upper level winds that steer weather systems across the ...
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| How is high temperature taken? | 6/29/2007 |
Q: My associates says high temperature is taken in the shade. Is that correct? How is that relative to ...
A: All "official" National Weather Service readings are taken from vented instrument shelters which are ...
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| Low Pressure Centers | 6/1/2007 |
Q: Recently I've noticed that low pressure centers seem to be getting larger and are remaining somewhat ...
A: These low pressure centers have exhibited these patterns for years, we call them "cut -off" lows. A ...
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| barometric pressure | 4/4/2007 |
Q: As I understand it cold air is denser than warm air. If this is the case please explain why high ...
A: The cold air in high pressure is denser and heavier than the warmer air of lower pressure,hence the ...
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| global warming | 3/28/2007 |
Q: Would a veteran meteorologist for a major airline be considered a "scientist" who can comment on ...
A: Meteorologists are scientists,but whether they have any special expertise in global warming is ...
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| percents | 3/9/2007 |
Q: Explain to me how I would work with percents
A: Percents are nothing more than fractions of 100. For example 1/2 is 50%, 1/3 is 33.333...% etc. ...
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| Interview | 2/23/2007 |
Q: Cade is my 4th grade student who is doing an independent study project about hurricanes. An ...
A: these are a few of my favorite web sites; www.nhc.noaa.gov ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu ...
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| high and low pressure in the atmosphere | 12/24/2006 |
Q: What causes high and low pressures in the atmosphere?
A: The primary causes are unequal heating of the Earth's surface by the sun, which when combined with ...
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| project | 12/11/2006 |
Q: I am in 10th grade and i am doing a math project. I chose to relate math to meteorology/the study ...
A: It is true that higher mathematics is very much used in meteorology in the form of the computer ...
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| Weather ?? | 12/10/2006 |
Q: I Have grown up in central Oklahoma recently moving to Arizona. Well im only 16 and im really into ...
A: I'm glad to hear you are very interested in meteorology, being very proficient in higher mathematics ...
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| what type of front is this? and why? | 12/1/2006 |
Q: If you have increasing high cloudiness and cold this morning,, then clouds increase and lowere this ...
A: The main weather element you need to remember is in the US when a frontal boundary passes if the ...
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| rain to snow ratio | 11/29/2006 |
Q: What is the rain to snow ratio? How many inches of snow to every inch of rain.
A: The standard ratio used is one inch of rain equals 10 inches of snow. It does vary quite a bit ...
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| Jet stream | 11/4/2006 |
Q: What causes jet streams to accelerate in coastal areas?
A: The main reason they accelerate is the same reason that drives all wind namely, extreme temperature ...
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| school project | 10/31/2006 |
Q: Hey Thomas, I'm doing a school project on meteorology if you don't mind can i ask you a few ...
A: You need at least a bachelor's degree in a math and or science related curriculum, and a master's or ...
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| Meteo on west coast of USA. | 10/28/2006 |
Q: I am from Montreal, Canada. Here the weather is always cloudy or rainy. I sometimes look at the ...
A: The real answer to your question is the location of the upper atmosphere jet stream that fast moving ...
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| climate change | 10/15/2006 |
Q: It would seem that one of the best indications that climate change is actually occuring would be ...
A: Although I have not heard of soil cores being used very much in climate research,for the very reason ...
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| how is your job? | 10/10/2006 |
Q: hey, im interested in what you do but i have some questions first. what did you have to study and ...
A: Meteorology is a branch of physics and mathematics that demands at least a masters degree and a ...
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| Is Meteorology a Science? | 10/2/2006 |
Q: I was doing an assignment for physics which requires me to explain whether or not meteorology is ...
A: As you point out meteorology is not an exact science owing to the fact that initial conditions on ...
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| How does meteorology involve Physics? | 9/30/2006 |
Q: I am doing a high school physics project over meteorology. I must find information about how it ...
A: Meteorology is all about physics, calculus and even chemistry. The atmosphere is a fluid dynamic ...
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| Ribbon Sunset | 9/19/2006 |
Q: Thomas, I saw what I consider an awesome phenomena Saturday evening, 9-16, here in SE Iowa. After ...
A: I have seen some beautiful sunsets in my time, in nature and in books and the internet but I have ...
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| Chance of rain | 9/15/2006 |
Q: How could I find out what the chances are of raining in the next x-amount of days during the next 30 ...
A: The science of meteorology has it's limitations and 15 days out is about the current limit. Any ...
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| snow by hurricanes | 9/11/2006 |
Q: but by question is: What would happen if a late season hurricane hit the east coast at the same time ...
A: the scenario you suggest I don't believe has ever happened, the closest I can find is a nor'easter ...
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| Clouds | 8/14/2006 |
Q: I was wondering why clouds, the puffy white ones on clear days, appear to be flat on the bottom. ...
A: the "puffy" white ones you are referring to are called cumulus clouds and sometimes from our ...
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| Lightening | 8/10/2006 |
Q: I would like to ask for the Thunderstorm days per year in Hong Kong. Also I would like to ask if ...
A: There can be no thunderstorm without lightning, lightning causes thunder! Lightning is the number ...
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