Question

True or False

1. A significant challenge for weather forecasting models is that they contain boundaries (geographic & volumetric), making small scale weather predictions less accurate.
2.Accuracy of forecasts made for 2 or more days ahead usually falls rapidly, due to the chaotic nature of weather.
3. Pre-frontal squall-lines are lines of severe thunderstorms that are very severe weather systems, and in the mid latitudes often contain supercells.
4. It is easier to forecast the movement of a tornado, than the potential of a blizzard.
5. A tornadic waterspout is a tornado over a body of water.
6. Hurricanes are formed from simple complexes of thunderstorms and require areas of high relative humidity concentrations.
7. A microclimate is the average climate of a small area, such as a city.
8. A microburst from a thunderstorm can cause an aircraft to gain and lose airspeed and altitude.
9. The eye wall of a hurricane forms during the depression stage.
10. The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), circles the Earth equatorial region, and is an area of rising air, causing this region to be very wet.

Answer 1

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. TRUE
7. FALSE
8. TRUE
9. FALSE
10. TRUE

Step-by-step explanation:

1) Topography is a major challenge hence answer is TRUE

2) Forecasts made for shorter periods tend to be more reliable and accurate when compared to forecasts made over a longer period hence answer is TRUE

3) pre-frontal squalls lines are linked to thunderstorms answer is TRUE

4) It is easier to forecast the potential of a blizzard than the movement of a tornado FALSE

5) A tornadic waterspout is a Tornado over a body of water ; TRUE

6) Hurricanes require high relative humidity concentrations ; TRUE

7) A microclimate is the average climate a very small area not as big as a city hence answer is FALSE

8) This is TRUE because the thunderstorm can cause the aircraft to lose its control

9) The eye wall of a hurricane forms only at the final stage of the Hurricane hence the answer is FALSE

10) TRUE