National Weatherperson’s Day

Question 1: National Weatherperson’s Day is observed annually on February 5 in honor of which early American physician who kept some of the first continuous weather records and even carried instruments on a pioneering 1785 balloon flight?

Question 2: Known to newspaper readers as “Old Probabilities,” which meteorologist is often called the Father of the U.S. Weather Service for organizing early forecast operations and issuing the nation’s first official weather forecasts in the 1870s?

Question 3: When meteorologists use Doppler radar to spot a tornado, what key measurement do they rely on to reveal rotation inside a thunderstorm—leading to signatures like velocity couplets and hook echoes?

Question 4: The deadliest single tornado in U.S. history carved a 200-plus-mile path on March 18, 1925; which three states did the “Tri-State Tornado” tear through?

Question 5: Which early 20th-century scientist and leader of the Bergen School laid the groundwork for modern weather forecasting by formulating the primitive equations of atmospheric motion and the polar front theory?


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