I put the dryline between the sharp different dewpoints. I had a hard time finding where the cold front went.starshine wrote:Definitely. But it was really quiet in the room, so when I talked, it got awkward. A 255-seater lecture hall with 20 people in it got awkward. And their lunch came in the middle of the event.tornado guy wrote:I also liked how they pre-spaced all the teams out!
The dryline went between the places of close dewpoints and far away dewpoints, right?
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Yes, same guy. Mike Spinar, he wrote the 2005 Severe Storm Nationals test and the 2010 Everyday Weather Nationals Test.starshine wrote:I'm not sure. He had two other people helping him write it. It looked so professional too, with binders and page protectors.FueL wrote:That does sound really easy. :\ I wonder if it was the same writer who did the 2005 nats test.
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Ok, I figured it was him. The test writing style seemed similar/familiar.rfscoach wrote:Yes, same guy. Mike Spinar, he wrote the 2005 Severe Storm Nationals test and the 2010 Everyday Weather Nationals Test.starshine wrote:I'm not sure. He had two other people helping him write it. It looked so professional too, with binders and page protectors.FueL wrote:That does sound really easy. :\ I wonder if it was the same writer who did the 2005 nats test.
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For some reason, it didn't seem familiar to me. But then again, there were those true/false questions...tornado guy wrote: Ok, I figured it was him. The test writing style seemed similar/familiar.
Oh ok. That's what I did too. The cold/warm fronts were easy for me to identify.tornado guy wrote:I put the dryline between the sharp different dewpoints. I had a hard time finding where the cold front went.starshine wrote:Definitely. But it was really quiet in the room, so when I talked, it got awkward. A 255-seater lecture hall with 20 people in it got awkward. And their lunch came in the middle of the event.tornado guy wrote:I also liked how they pre-spaced all the teams out!
The dryline went between the places of close dewpoints and far away dewpoints, right?
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I put the cold front where the temperature dropped a few degrees. And the warm front where there was consistent high dewpoint, and no sharp differences.
Did you split up the test or do it in order with your partner?
Did you split up the test or do it in order with your partner?
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We did the first two questions together. Then we realized that it was really long, so we split it up. We finished everything, including checking with 7 minutes to spare.tornado guy wrote:I put the cold front where the temperature dropped a few degrees. And the warm front where there was consistent high dewpoint, and no sharp differences.
Did you split up the test or do it in order with your partner?
What about you?
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We finished the test with 5 minutes left. And then I realized for the very first question that my partner (Since we split up the test.) had accidentally looked at the wrong map for the average tornadoes... We then rushed through that part writing down the right states What did you put down from 1-4 for most dangerous weather events?starshine wrote:We did the first two questions together. Then we realized that it was really long, so we split it up. We finished everything, including checking with 7 minutes to spare.tornado guy wrote:I put the cold front where the temperature dropped a few degrees. And the warm front where there was consistent high dewpoint, and no sharp differences.
Did you split up the test or do it in order with your partner?
What about you?
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Oh, that must've sucked. At least you guys checked and got it right.tornado guy wrote:We finished the test with 5 minutes left. And then I realized for the very first question that my partner (Since we split up the test.) had accidentally looked at the wrong map for the average tornadoes... We then rushed through that part writing down the right states What did you put down from 1-4 for most dangerous weather events?starshine wrote:We did the first two questions together. Then we realized that it was really long, so we split it up. We finished everything, including checking with 7 minutes to spare.tornado guy wrote:I put the cold front where the temperature dropped a few degrees. And the warm front where there was consistent high dewpoint, and no sharp differences.
Did you split up the test or do it in order with your partner?
What about you?
We put
1. Flash Flooding
2. Hurricanes
3. Lightning
4. Tornadoes
What place did you get?
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We put downstarshine wrote: Oh, that must've sucked. At least you guys checked and got it right.
We put
1. Flash Flooding
2. Hurricanes
3. Lightning
4. Tornadoes
What place did you get?
1. Lightning
2. Tornadoes
3. Hurricanes
4. Flash Flooding.. I checked out on the internet after the test and saw that we go half of it correct..
We actually got 39th Which after talking to you and hearing other peoples' reactions is surprising, since most of the stuff you're saying you put down I put down the same thing.
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Oh. It looks like we got the exact opposite XDtornado guy wrote:We put downstarshine wrote: Oh, that must've sucked. At least you guys checked and got it right.
We put
1. Flash Flooding
2. Hurricanes
3. Lightning
4. Tornadoes
What place did you get?
1. Lightning
2. Tornadoes
3. Hurricanes
4. Flash Flooding.. I checked out on the internet after the test and saw that we go half of it correct..
We actually got 39th Which after talking to you and hearing other peoples' reactions is surprising, since most of the stuff you're saying you put down I put down the same thing.
And 39th isn't bad. Plus, since the test was fairly easy, it may have been hard to separate the teams.
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