1. Which of the following is not effected by wind chill?
a. person b. dog c. car radiator d. bird
Answer: c. Wind chill is the combination of wind and temperature and is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin such as that of a person or animal. As the wind increases, heat is carried away from the body at an accelerated rate, driving the body temperature down. Wind chill has no effect on cars or other objects.
2. What is the difference between sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
Answer: Hail is a chunk or stone of ice dropped from a thunderstorm. Sleet is frozen rain. Freezing rain is liquid rain that freezes to a surface such as the road or a tree.
3. True or False. It must be 32°F or colder for it to snow.
Answer: False. It has been known to snow with temperatures in the mid 40's. Temperatures are below 32°F up in the clouds where the snow is forming.
4. On the average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow?
a. 10 inches b. 1 inch c. 5 inches d. a foot
Answer: a. 10 inches of snow melts down to about an inch of liquid rain.
5. Can it snow from clear skies?
Answer: Yes. Ice crystals sometimes fall from clear skies when temperatures are in the single digits or colder.
6. What is more hazardous to trees and power lines?
a. One inch of wet snow b. One inch of ice
Answer: b. An inch of ice is heavier than wet snow and is hazardous enough to cause power lines and trees to come down.
a. person b. dog c. car radiator d. bird
Answer: c. Wind chill is the combination of wind and temperature and is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin such as that of a person or animal. As the wind increases, heat is carried away from the body at an accelerated rate, driving the body temperature down. Wind chill has no effect on cars or other objects.
2. What is the difference between sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
Answer: Hail is a chunk or stone of ice dropped from a thunderstorm. Sleet is frozen rain. Freezing rain is liquid rain that freezes to a surface such as the road or a tree.
3. True or False. It must be 32°F or colder for it to snow.
Answer: False. It has been known to snow with temperatures in the mid 40's. Temperatures are below 32°F up in the clouds where the snow is forming.
4. On the average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow?
a. 10 inches b. 1 inch c. 5 inches d. a foot
Answer: a. 10 inches of snow melts down to about an inch of liquid rain.
5. Can it snow from clear skies?
Answer: Yes. Ice crystals sometimes fall from clear skies when temperatures are in the single digits or colder.
6. What is more hazardous to trees and power lines?
a. One inch of wet snow b. One inch of ice
Answer: b. An inch of ice is heavier than wet snow and is hazardous enough to cause power lines and trees to come down.
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