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Boards Weather Forum Quiz - 09 December 2011

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  • 09-12-2011 4:32pm
    #1
    WolfeIRE
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    A new thread to get the minds working.

    I will try as often as possible, most likely once a week so as not to clutter the forum, to post a new set of questions relating to Irish weather and earth science related matters.

    To reveal the answers just drag your mouse icon over the dark spoiler areas.

    If there is an issue with any of the answers given please PM me.

    Enjoy!!

    1) Prior to its closure in 2008, what was the snowiest Met Eireann weather observation station i.e. recorded the most snow days each year?
    Clones, County Monaghan
    .
    2) Stench Irony is an anagram of which Irish town?
    Enniscorthy
    3) What type of clouds are these?
    Lenticular
    184509.jpg

    4) Scores of people were killed across the country on January 6,
    1839
    , during The Night of the Big Wind
    5) Irish weather forecaster
    Ted Sweeney
    claims a special place in world history by filing a famous weather report which delays the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy for 24 hours
    6) What Met Eireann weather observation station is the foggiest location in Ireland, with 99.5 days of fog per year?
    Cork Airport
    7) The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was
    33.3 °C (92 °F)
    at Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny on 26 June 1887
    8) The lowest temperature was −19.1 °C (−2.4 °F) at
    Markree Castle
    , County Sligo on 16 January 1881
    9) Slieve Donard is part of which mountain range?
    Mourne Mountains
    10) What does the meterological abbreviation hPa stand for?
    Hectopascal


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    NIALL D
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    cool , something to keep us all entertained !! ;):D


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    #3
    Harps
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    Spent 5 minutes on that anagram and still couldn't get it!

    7/10, got 2, 4 and 5 wrong. Happy enough with that!


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    Deep Easterly
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    7/10. Failed on the Slieve Donard one, anagram one and the fatality count during the big wind.


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    WolfeIRE
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    7/10. Failed on the Slieve Donard one, anagram one and the fatality count during the big wind.

    question looks for year not fatality count.


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    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    question looks for year not fatality count.

    Oops, 8 out of 10 so. :)


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    MiNdGaM3
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    7/10 for me aswell. 1,5, and 9 caught me out.


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    #8
    thetonynator
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    7/10.

    Look what happened when Wolfe discovered spoilers!


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    John mac
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    I always wondered what spoiler tags were (over 10 years!):)and how they worked.

    3/10 :)


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    Tom Cruises Left Nut
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    10/10 :cool:
    Lies make baby Jesus cry :(


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    delw
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    can i phone a friend or take a 50/50 ;):D


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    #12
    snow ghost
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    I got two right answers :pac: and an hour to work out how to reveal the spoilers. :o


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    #13
    fizzycyst
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    2/10 for me too :o great idea though Wolf :)


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    nacho libre
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    Good idea. I got question 2 and 5 wrong


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    M.T. Cranium
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    I might have handled an easier anagram, like for instance, Korc.

    By the way, what's an anagram for winter long-range forecast?
    one strange wrong final CET

    :D


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    nacho libre
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    M.T. Cranium wrote: »
    I might have handled an easier anagram, like for instance, Korc.

    By the way, what's an anagram for winter long-range forecast?
    one strange wrong final CET

    :D

    i could have pondered that for next 10 hours straight and i still wouldn't have come up with the answer:o


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    M.T. Cranium
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    Well, I figured "wrong" might leap out at you. :D


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