Weather People Quiz

  1. Who came up with the naming system for different types of clouds?

    Kristina Abernathy

    Benjamin Franklin

    Luke Howard

    Ted Fujita

    Thomas Jefferson

    George Mifdon

  2. This person looked at countless snowflakes, concluding that no two snowflakes are alike. His nickname is "Snowflake".

    Wilson Bentley

    Thomas Jefferson

    Roald Amundsen

    Robert Frost

  3. Who wrote the poem "The Cloud", which includs the passage "I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder."?

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    George W. Bush

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Robert Frost

  4. This authority on hurricanes and tropical storms (former director of National Hurricane Center) now works as a TV meteorologist in Houston.

    Bob Ryan

    John Hope

    Ted Fujita

    Neil Frank

  5. This enthusiastic TV meteorologist is also the co-host of "Atmospheres". He/she graduated from Lyndon State College.

    Paul Emmick

    Jim Cantore

    Ted Fujita

    Sharon Resultan

  6. This person was the SLOC "weather coordinator" for the 2002 Winter Olympics, and was also the former director of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and of NWS Western Region.

    Mark Eubank

    Jim Steenburgh

    Tom Potter

    Jack Kelly

  7. The popular Accuweather forecaster is known for his daily weather column forecasting East Coast hurricanes or snowstorms. He is also a former wrestler and is currently the national champion U.S. bodybuilder for his age bracket.

    Jesse Ventura

    Chris Harper

    Joe Bastardi

    Paul Kocin

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    This albino Canadian groundhog (his/her statue is shown above) is the Canadian equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil.

    Tremblant Tiffany

    Nunavut Norbert

    Calgary Cal

    Wiarton Willie

  9. This person, among many other things, was one of the first to study the Gulf Stream and made one of the first weather forecasts by observing that a NE surface wind does not necessarily mean that the storm is coming from the NE.

    Benjamin Franklin

    Thomas Jefferson

    Wilhelm Bjerknes

    Abraham Smith

  10. This person is the world's only full-time storm chasing photographer and journalist. He was also heavily involved in making the movie "Twister" and wrote "Storm Chaser".

    Bill Paxton

    Howard Bluestein

    Ted Fujita

    Warren Faidley