Category: Weather

1.  What are the three main types of clouds?   What are clouds made of?

2.  What was the highest recorded temperature on Earth?   When and where?

3.  What was the lowest recorded temperature on Earth?   When and where?

4.  How many hurricane categories are there in the Saffir-Simpson scale?    How strong are the winds in the strongest class of hurricanes?

5.   What is the average yearly snowfall for Anchorage, Alaska?   What is the average yearly snowfall for Flagstaff, Arizona?  

6.   What U.S. state has the most weather variety?   What state has the least?

7.    What U.S. state has the most earthquake activity?   What state has the most tornadoes?

LUCKY 7 BONUS

Name 7 out of the 10 snowiest cities in the USA in 2012. 





1.  Cirrus, stratus, and cumulus.   All other cloud types are combinations of these.  Clouds are made of tiny water droplets or crystals of ice. 

2.  134 degrees Fahrenheit.  July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, California.


3.  -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.  July 21, 1983 in Antarctica.  

4.  There are 5 categories.   A category 5 hurricane is greater than 155 mph.

5.  Anchorage has 114.0 average inches of snowfall a year.   Now get this..... Flagstaff, Arizona has 100.3!

6.  Springfield, Missouri  has the most variety,  San Francisco, California has the least.

7.  Alaska, Oklahoma.

LUCKY 7 BONUS

Syracuse, NY                     Worcester, MA
Spokane, WA                      Anchorage, AK
Provo, UT                           Green Bay, WI
Salt Lake City ,UT              Erie, PA
Rochester, NY                     Madison, WI