Exam 11: Hurricanes

How many rotating lists of names are used to name tropical storms and hurricanes?

As a hurricane advances toward the coast in the Northern Hemisphere, storm surge is always most intense on the left side of the eye where winds are blowing away from the shore.

Overwarning is difficult to avoid in hurricane forecasting.

Hurricanes can form over tropical land masses as well as over tropical oceans.

Aircraft cannot fly directly into a hurricane, so they have to collect data from well above the storm.

The __________scale is used to rank the relative intensity of hurricanes.

The doughnut- shaped wall of intense convective activity surrounding the center of the storm is called the:

A tropical storm is given a name that it will keep if it becomes a hurricane.

Doppler radar is of limited use in creating hurricane storm warnings because:

One problem with issuing a hurricane warning is:

The largest number of hurricanes form right along the equator.

List and describe four tools used to track hurricanes and develop forecasts.

Satellite data suggest that Typhoon Haiyan may have been the strongest storm ever on record to make landfall.

Cyclone Nargis made landfall in:

What have scientists discovered will happen to a hurricane about six hours after it produces hot towers?

What general circulation wind belt is the place of origin for hurricanes?

If you are in a tall building near the coast during a hurricane, where is the best place to be?

Which "famous" hurricane was the costliest in United States history?

During which of the time spans listed below should hurricane formation in the North Atlantic be at a peak?

Storms that fall into category 5 are very common.