Exam 9: Weather Patterns

Speed divergence helps maintain surface lows.

The weather most typically associated with a blocking high is:

On a weather map,__________ fronts are shown with blue triangular points along a blue line.

The lifting of air and the resulting formation of clouds and rain is more gentle (gradual) for a:

The width or horizontal extent of a typical mid- latitude low pressure system would be:

Rain long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past. The FIRST FIVE words of this weather proverb:

The term cyclogenesis refers to the decay of a cyclone.

Each of the statements refers to the approach or to the passage of a front. If the statement refers to the approach of a typical cold front, use the letter A for your answer. If the statement refers to the approach or passage of a typical warm front, use the letter B. If the statement applies to both, answer with letter C. -Severe thunderstorm/tornado

Generally, a change in wind direction from southwest to northwest means bad weather will come soon.

The general term applied to warm air moving up over a colder air mass is:

Which of the stations listed below should have the highest temperature?

Which of these is common to both cold and warm fronts?

The winds in an anticyclone generally all blow from the east.

The life cycle of a midlatitude cyclone generally has ______stages.

Outside of the Great Lakes region, rising barometric pressure and a wind from the northwest generally mean that:

Why is the weather associated with a cold front usually of short duration?

A_________ cold front occurs when a strong high- pressure circulation brings colder, mP air into the eastern United States from the Atlantic Ocean.

Cold fronts generally travel faster than warm fronts.

Frontal systems cause clouds by adding moisture to the air.

Middle- latitude cyclones typically develop along segments of the polar front.