Metr 302 Midterm 2 "Fair Game" List
Midterm 2: Material covered since Midterm 1.
- "Thermal" Pressure Sysems
- Hurricanes (See Hurricane Topic List in Hurricane Past Links section)
- "Dynamic" Pressure Systems
- Wave Cyclones (as a specific example of a "dynamic" low)
- Fronts (warm, cold, stationary)
- Dry Line
- Instability/Stability
- Common/Single Cell Thunderstorm
- Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies (when do they occur?) and Meaning and Intepretation of Convective Outlooks and Probabilistic Tornado, Straight Line Wind and Hail Outlooks
- Either PBS Special or National Geographic Article AND the 8 minute internet National Geographic summary of the Samaras Research
- Accumulated Since Beginnning of Semester:
- Interpretation of Weather Map and Charts, Make Your Own Weather Map Page, Satellite and Radar Imagery
- Use of Websites: US Navy Tropical Cyclone Page, Storm Prediction Center, Satellite loops and imagery from the NWS and from US Navy etc.