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Which cloud can tower twice as high as Mount Everest?
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What traps hot air over a region like a lid?
Answer: Heat dome
Why: Air sinking under the dome is squeezed and warms, while the clear skies let the sun bake the ground.
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Which ingredient turns a snowstorm into a blizzard?
Answer: Strong winds
Why: A ground blizzard can happen with no snow falling at all, as strong winds whip up snow already lying on the ground.
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What mainly drives a hurricane's storm surge?
Answer: Onshore winds
Why: Low pressure lifts the sea only about 1 cm for each hectopascal it drops, a small slice of a big surge.
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What gives a hurricane its energy?
Answer: Warm ocean water
Why: Hurricanes generally need seawater of about 27 °C that stays warm down to roughly 46 m deep.
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Who is the tornado rating scale named after?
Answer: Ted Fujita
Why: Fujita also discovered microbursts, small violent storm downdrafts that have brought down airliners.
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How long did Spearfish, USA, take to warm by 27 °C in 1943?
Answer: 2 minutes
Why: A chinook did it: a wind that heats up because its air is squeezed as it sinks down a mountain slope.
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