Can It Rain Critters? Tornado Waterspout Tornadic Waterspout Strong updraft Fish Birds Reptiles Insects Animals Sucked up into top of the storm Can be carried hundreds of miles away Can Rainbows Happen At Night? Full moon, low on horizon “Moonbow” Usually after rain showers There are also “Firebows” Heavenly Sight At Twilight Noctilucent Clouds Are Ghosts Real? Sun Halo Sun Ghost Oversized human shadow cast on a fog bank below Damp mountainous areas like Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula What Do You Get When You Cross “The Flash” & “Green Lantern” ?????????????????? The Green Flash Less than a second Before sunset and after sunrise When Does The Sun Melt? Novaya Zemlya Effect A Polar Mirage High refraction of sun Different Atmospheric Thermoclines Sun looks like a line or square or flattened hourglasses Hay Bales or Mother Nature? Snow Rollers Snowballs On crusty snow Following several inches wet snowfall Pushed by strong winds Contrail? Haboob? Up to 600 miles long Morning Glory Cloud 1-2 miles Above Ground Atmospheric conditions best in the morning Strong vertical motion in front Rapidly descending air in rear High humidity and sea breezes are involved Photoshop or Real Cloud Pyrocumulus Cloud Fueled by updraft of wildfires Can generate “Firenadoes” Can Lightning Be Invisible? Volcanic Lightning Real or Hollywood St. Elmo’s Fire Ball Lightning Electrical charged plasma Slow moving, destructive Or Do They? Meet The “Brinicle” Highly concentrated brine from sea ice leaks below the ice shelf into less saline water Where it freezes and forms a stalactite in the sea beneath the ice Ice Circle Found in cold, northern climates Outer bend of a slow moving river Accelerating water creates rotational shear Large chunk of ice breaks off Spins against surrounding ice until smooth and circle shaped Are Elves Real? Upper Atmosphere Different Causes Sprites Jets Intense Lightning Storms With Hail Bonus Round Sunniest place on Earth? South Pole Keraunophobia is fear of what? Lightning Brontophobia is fear of what? Thunder Can hot water freeze faster than cold? Yes, under the right conditions Will Cubs Win 2015 World Series? Who Says Weather Isn’t Sexy Mammatus Virga Haboob Hoarfrost Orogenous Zone Wedge Rear End Flow Overshooting Top Bulging Top Warm Push Panhandle Hooker Rotating Head Wet Bulb Choking Downdraft Dry Slot Vertically Erect System Suction Vortices Beaver Tail Moist Tongue [email protected] @TammieSouza TammieSouzaTV Tammie.Souza .