Author Question: Suppose it is warm and raining, and a cold front is moving toward your location. Directly behind ... (Read 49 times)

Ebrown · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

Suppose it is warm and raining, and a cold front is moving toward your location. Directly behind
the cold front it is cold and snowing. Still further behind the front the weather is cold and
clearing. If the front is scheduled to pass your area in 6 hours, a persistence forecast for your area
for 12 hours from now would be:
a. cold and snowing.
b. cold and clearing.
c. cold and cloudy.
d. warm and raining.
e. not enough information on which to base a forecast.

Question 2

A forecast of an extended period of dry weather would be made for a region beneath:a.
an upper-level trough.
b. the polar jet stream.
c. a cold pool of air aloft.
d. an upper-level ridge.
e. a shortwave trough