How well do you know weather phenomena?

Weather has a lot of different variations and a lot of weird stuff that can happen. Which means it also has a bunch of weird names and a lot of people don't a lot of them.

See if you can guess the names of these weather phenomena! Most are simple and it's only 10 questions! Maybe you actually heard them before! Try and answer anyway! Good luck!

Created by: Zukyu!
  1. What is lightning called when it doesn't hit the ground?
  2. What is the period in time called after a killing frost when the weather gets unseasonably warm?
  3. What is the phenomena where usually 2 bright rainbow spots appear near the sun called?
  4. What is the entire rainbow around the sun called?
  5. When the temperature is below freezing, sometimes an ice cloud forms near to the ground making the air seem like glitter. Was is this called.
  6. What is the plasmic light that appears most often in depictions of sailors at night at the tip of the hull?
  7. Was is the rare cloud formation called when it forms long rows of rolling clouds.
  8. Was is the tornado-like whirling of dust in dry places called?
  9. What is a rainbow without any color called?
  10. These clouds are commonly found after thunderstorms. Called mammatus clouds, what does mammatus mean?

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