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WX 301 EXAM 2 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATESOLUTIONS
During which months does lake effect occur? In which air mass? - Precise Answer ✔✔November-
January, cP
With airflow from the northwest, which shores of the great lakes does lake effect occur on? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Western and northern
airflow from the north over the ocean in the southern hemisphere is most likely a ____ air mass - Precise
Answer ✔✔mT
In the cold air behind a cold front over the ocean, we typically fine a ____ air mass and ____ weather. -
Precise Answer ✔✔mP, showery
a mP air mass moving from the NE onto the NE US is most likely - Precise Answer ✔✔cool, foggy, and
stable
a source region for mT airmass is - Precise Answer ✔✔tropical pacific and the gulf of mexico
The northwest flow behind a cold front over Texas is most likely ____ with ____ weather. - Precise
Answer ✔✔cP, clear and cold
The most likely surface weather conditions just to the north of a warm front are - Precise Answer
✔✔easterly flow, cold, with mist, drizzle and light rain
Behind (west of) a cold front over Indiana, the air mass ____ and the weather is typically ____. - Precise
Answer ✔✔cP, clear and cold
The most likely sequence as a cold occlusion passes is - Precise Answer ✔✔cool SE flow followed by
slightly colder westerlies
, As a midlatitude cyclone occludes, horizontal temperature contrasts ____ over time. - Precise Answer
✔✔Weaken
Cold frontal precipitation is typically - Precise Answer ✔✔Convective
As a warm front passes, temperature ____ and wind commonly changes from ___ to ___. - Precise
Answer ✔✔Rises, easterly, SW
The dry line marks the boundary between - Precise Answer ✔✔Warm moist air and warm dry air
A cold occlusion has ____ air ahead and ____ air behind. - Precise Answer ✔✔Cool, slightly colder
The following weather sequence occurs with the passage of a ____: warm southweasterlies, a period of
showers followed by much colder west to northwest winds and clearing. - Precise Answer ✔✔Cold front
A surface cold front has just reached Chicago from the west. At 10,000 ft AGL, the cold front will be
located ____ of Chicago. - Precise Answer ✔✔West
In relation to fronts, an elevated region of vertical wind shear is commonly found - Precise Answer
✔✔West of a cold front, and northeast of a warm front
I am in the surface easterly flow just to the north of a surface warm front. The most likely wind direction
15,000 ft above this location is from the - Precise Answer ✔✔Southwest
Of a warm front, cold front, or cold occlusion, which has the weakest horizontal temperature contrast? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Cold occlusion.
A change from cool southwesterlies and rain to slightly warmer notrhwesterlies and clearing occurs with
the passage of... - Precise Answer ✔✔Warm occlusion
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