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  • Question of

    Which is it harder to see through, mist or fog?

    • Mist
    • Fog
  • Question of

    Luke Howard categorised what?

    • Clouds
    • Rain
    • Snow
  • Question of

    What is the name given to the visual phenomenon of large electric discharges that occur in the upper atmosphere above cumulonimbus clouds?

    • Red Elves
    • Red Goblins
    • Red Sprites
  • Question of

    What does an anemometer record?

    • Rainfall
    • Sunshine
    • Windspeed
  • Question of

    In the UK dry, hot weather is usually ushered in by what wind direction?

    • Northern
    • South-easterly
    • South-westerly
  • Question of

    What name is given to lightning that is sufficiently distant for the observer to be unable to hear the accompanying thunder?

    • Ghost Lightning
    • Heat Lightning
    • White Lightning
  • Question of

    According to the Guiness Book of Records, Roy C. Sullivan has survived the most lightning strikes. How many?

    • Three
    • Five
    • Seven
  • Question of

    What killed 246 people in Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1888?

    • Hot Rain
    • Hailstones
    • Tornadoes
  • Question of

    Which weatherman assured a woman who had rang the BBC concerned about the possibility of an incoming hurricane that, ‘don’t worry there isn’t (one)’, the night before the Great Storm of 1987 brought havoc to Britain?

    • Michael Fish
    • John Kettley
    • Ian McCaskill
  • Question of

    A wind of 408 kph was recorded at Borrow Island, in 1996, off the coast of where?

    • Alaska
    • Antarctica
    • Australia

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