Unit

10.5 Review- Predicting Weather

1. Weather instruments include wind vanes, rain gauges, barometer, psychrometers, and anemometers.
Match the pictures below with the correct name of the instrument and describe what that instruments does.
Picture Instrument name Description/ What does the instrument do?
a.
Barometer Measures air pressure

b.

Anemometer Measures wind speed

c.

Wind Vane Measures wind direction

2. Describe how the barometric air pressure will change as bad weather approaches. _____________________
bad weather approaching = decreases
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3. Describe how the barometric air pressure will change when bad weather dissipates and a stable air mass
good weather approaching = increasing
take over. ______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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4. Convert the following atmospheric pressures using pg. _________ of the ESRT:
a. 29.88 in of Hg 1012.0
___________________ mb
b. 1010.0 mb 29.82
___________________ in of Hg
c. 30.25 in of hg 1024.5
___________________ mb
d. 993.0mb 29.32
___________________ in of Hg
1013.25 29.92
e. Avg. atmosphere ___________________ mb, ___________________ in of Hg.

(1 atm)
5. Fill in the missing information about air masses in the following table:
Name Abbreviation Temperature Humidity Source region
a. Continental Tropical cT warm low Mexico
b. Continental Polar cP Canada
Cold low
c. mT Warm High
maritime Tropical S. oceans, Gulf of Mexico.
d. Maritime Polar N. oceans
mP cold high
6. Answer the questions that follow based on the map below.

Denver Austin
a. Which city has the greatest wind speed? __________________ lowest wind speed? ________________
the closer the isobars, the greater the wind speed.
b. Explain how you got your answer to (a). ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
c. Describe the circulation of air around the Low Pressure system. _________________________________
counter clockwise
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d. Describe the circulation of air around the high pressure system. _________________________________
clockwise
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low
high
e. Winds will always blow from areas of ______________ pressure to _______________ pressure.
west east
f. The low pressure and high pressure systems will move from _______________ to _______________.
a. Describe how the jet stream influences the movement of storms over the united states.
Jet stream moves from west to east, so the storms will move from west to east.
______________________________________________________________________________
7. Describe where you would find precipitation along a cold front. ____________________________________
at and behind the front.
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8. Describe where you would find precipitation along a warm front. ___________________________________
before the front passes.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
9. Identify the type of severe weather system associated with the description.
Tornado
a. Small storm, extreme low pressure, funnel cloud: ___________________________
Hurricane
b. Large storm, extreme low pressure, consists of an eye, eye wall, and rain bands: _________________
10. Identify 2 or 3 ways to stay safe during the following severe storms:
go to low elevation, move into an interior room, listen to all warnings
a. Tornadoes: _______________________________________________________________________
evacuate when told, go to high elevation, board up windows, stay in an interior room.
b. Hurricanes: _______________________________________________________________________
go indoors, don't touch metal, etc.
c. Thunderstorms: ___________________________________________________________________
11. Describe how a land breeze forms. Be sure to include the time of day and how the winds are moving.
Night time. Low specific heat of land makes it cool faster, forming a high pressure over land.
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The warmer waters create a low pressure, so the winds blow from land to sea (land breeze).
_______________________________________________________________________________________
12. Describe how a sea breeze forms. Be sure to include the time of day and how the winds are moving.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Day time. Low specific heat of land makes it heat up faster, forming a low pressure over land.
The cooler waters create a high pressure, so the winds blow from sea to land (sea breeze)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
13. Analyze the image below and answer the questions that follow.
Cold
Front Warm
front

a. Identify and label the two fronts found in the picture above.
cP
b. What is the name of the air mass behind the cold front? __________________________
mT
c. What is the name of the air mass behind the warm front? __________________________
d. How does the shape of the cold front compare to the shape of the warm front? __________________
Steep wedge for a cold front, gradual tilt for warm front.
_________________________________________________________________________________
e. How does the temperature behind a cold front compare to the temperature before it? ____________
colder behind the front.
_________________________________________________________________________________
f. How does the temperature behind a warm front compare to the temperature before it? __________
warmer behind the front.
_________________________________________________________________________________
g. Draw the map symbols in the respective positions.

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14. Weather symbols are found on pg. ____________ of the ESRT. Draw the weather symbols for the following:
Fog Smog Thunderstorm Tornado Snow

15. Describe the relationship between wind temperature and water temperature to create lake effect snow.
cold winds, warmer water
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16. Explain why locations to the west of the great lakes get far less snow compared to the locations east of the
winds are blowing from the west to the east over water. the winds
lakes. __________________________________________________________________________________
didnt pass over water for the cities on the west side of the mtns.
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17. How does the temperature and dew point relate to each other when the relative humidity is highest and it
They will be the same, or very close to each other
is precipitating? __________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
18. Create a station model that has a high probability of precipitation.

Temperature and dew point should be equal or close. Clouds should be approximately 100%

19. Create a station model that has the following attributes:

Temperature = 86F, Dew Pt. = 81F, Visibility = 3 mi, Weather = hail, Clouds = 75%, Pressure = 984.6mb.
Trend = decreased by 3.1mb, Precipitation = .24 inches. Winds = Northeast @ 25 knots.

86 846

3 -31

81 .24

20. Be sure you know how to draw isolines. Remember, isobars (pressure) make circles around the highest and
lowest pressures. Isolines run from east to west. from west to east, and shift towards the
northeast
21. Describe how all storms will move across the united states. _______________________________________