weather quiz!

[DELIGNY Vincent]

8) RULES:

if you have a correct answer, you are allowed to ask a new question.

Questions just about weather.


:wink: THIS IS MY QUESTION:

Which cloud is the announce of the evolution between cumulus congestus and cumulonimbus?

 

[Cstok]

Pileus

 

[DELIGNY Vincent]

c ongratulation

this is one:
[Broken External Image]:http://membres.lycos.fr/fryz2002/hpbimg/Orage 29 08 03 10h05c web.jpg

Cstok you may now post your question

 

[Cstok]

This scientist was one of the first to suggest that lightning played a roll in the formation of life on earth.

 

[Matthew Havin]

How about ... Russian scientist A.I Oparin in the 1920s, revised in 1953 by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey?!

 

[Cstok]

Nice job Matt!

Your turn!

 

[Matthew Havin]

Okay, this one is kinda easy, but here it goes.... who was the ONLY meteorologist to ever appear on the cover of Time magazine?

 

[Bryce Stone]

I believe that Carl-Gustaf Rossby is the correct answer.

http://www.meteor.wisc.edu/~amanda/cgr_time.jpg

 

[Matthew Havin]

Yey! We have a winner! Your turn Bryce.

 

[Bryce Stone]

After realizing that the answers to most of the trivia questions were easily available on the internet, I wanted to go for something devilishly obscure :lol: . I'll be very surprised if anyone gets this.

Name the 18-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama who was in critical condition after a tornado threw him off his motorcycle on Sunday, November 25th, 1979 (this was an AP news release).

 

[Bryce Stone]

I suppose no one is going to get this, and I don't want this thread to die, because it is fun. The answer can be seen in a newspaper clipping from my private collection of tornado stuff:

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/6605/scan0010.jpg

Here's a different question: Who wrote the book Tornado Watch #211?

 

[Sam Sagnella]

One of my all-time favorite weather books, the author is John Fuller, who, according to his blurb, is from right near my home town of Westport, Connecticut.

 

[Bryce Stone]

Of course you're right. Mystify the multitudes with your question!

 

[Sam Sagnella]

Who founded the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology, and when did this occur?

 

[mikegeukes]

Since I do not attend OU, I take a guess at the year.
1960 is when OU meteorology program was established.

1960 first meteorology courses offered at OU
1963 first meteorology degree awarded.

Mike