Quiz #5

Physics 137                                                                                               Friday, November 13, 2009
Please put your CID# at the top of your paper.

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1.  The outside temperature as today's class began was approximately            °F.

          2.  Which of the following is a weather phenomenon which has bee present for the past few hours?  (a) altostratus clouds,
    (b) near normal temperatures, (c) rising barometric pressure, (d) rising relative humidity, (e) southerly wind.

          3.  Thunderstorms are (a) never, (b) occasionally, (c) usually, or (d) always associated with cumulonimbus clouds.

          4.  What type of weather forecast is simplest to formulate?  (a) analogue, (b) ensemble, (c) persistence, (d) steady-state.

          5.  For which of the following forecast terms for showery weather, all used by the National Weather Service, is the probability
    greatest that showers will actually occur?  (a) "numerous showers," (b) "scattered showers," (c) "showers," (d) "widely
    scattered showers."

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