Weather Quiz 2
1. The lines on a 500mb charts represent?
  • Pressure isobars
  • Height contours
  • Humidity isobars
2. The ITCZ (intertropical convergence zone or doldrums)  is an area of?
  • Low pressure
  • High pressure
  • Neither
3. If you stand (in the Northern Hemisphere) with your back to the lower level wind (about 2000ft - the base of the lowest clouds) and the high clouds are coming from the left, then
  • The weather will improve
  • The weather will deteriorate
  • The weather will stay much the same
4. If there is 5 seconds between the flash of lightening and the thunder, how far away is the storm?
  • 1nm
  • 5nm
  • 10nm
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For us, the value of travel is not so much in leaving one place or reaching another as in the knowledge that when at last we go home, we will not return to exactly the same point.  Travel takes us outside of ourselves and deeper within.  It reminds us that despite geographic vastness, all places are connected to all others, with simple elements like air and water in common

Jill Fredston, Rowing to Latitude