Assignment

1. Recall from your reading about thunderstorm basics to answer: Explain why thunderstorms are most common in the early afternoon and evening.

2. Recall from your reading about air masses, and in your own words, explain what is creating the weather pattern in the this diagram.

3. In your own words, explain how air would circulate around the globe if the Earth were not rotating.

4. Recall from your reading about air masses to answer: A warm front is predicted to come through your area tomorrow. What weather should you expect?

5. You awake one winter morning to snow falling. When you look out your window at noon, the snow had changed to rain, and later in the afternoon sleet was falling. This later turned to snow. As you are driving home from work, evening rain was freezing on bridges and roadways as glaze. Describe the vertical temperature strata for each type of precipitation and how such a sequence of precipitation might occur.