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Which atmospheric optical phenomenon forms a bright ring around the Sun or Moon from ice crystals?
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Halo
What 1816 climate event became known as the Year Without a Summer?
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Year Without a Summer
What meteorological event is a sudden warming of the polar stratosphere called?
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Sudden stratospheric warming
What instrument did Evangelista Torricelli invent to measure atmospheric pressure?
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Mercury barometer
On a weather map, what are lines joining places with equal temperature called?
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Isotherms
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What 1816 climate event became known as the Year Without a Summer?
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Year Without a Summer
What meteorological event is a sudden warming of the polar stratosphere called?
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Sudden stratospheric warming
What instrument did Evangelista Torricelli invent to measure atmospheric pressure?
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Mercury barometer
What is the name of the largest hailstone recorded in the United States by diameter?
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Vivian hailstone
What is the name for rain that freezes on contact with a surface?
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freezing rain
What is the standard average environmental lapse rate in Earth’s troposphere?
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6.5 °C per kilometre