| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Weather-sounding process to develop creative ideas through free thinking & collaboration brainstorming |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $400: This 2009 cartoon starring Anna Faris is a very unusual prediction of the weather Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | CAUTION $800: The National Weather Service issues red flag warnings for California when weather could cause one of these events a wildfire |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $800: Ian Ziering first dealt with this, dare we say, unusual weather phenomenon in 2013 but it would not be Ian's last time in the storm sharknado |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE APP & WEBSITE US"ER" $400: Investment firm Francisco Partners always knows when it's going to rain since acquiring this .com from IBM Weather |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $600: When "in" comes before this word meaning "merciful", it often describes nasty weather clement |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Weather Capital of the World", Pennsylvania Punxsutawney |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $200: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) Haboob is an alternate & more fun to say word for this; in 524 B.C. a haboob is said to have buried 50,000 Persian soldiers in the Egyptian desert without leaving a trace a sandstorm |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $400: (Daisy Edgar-Jones presents the clue.) A lethal combination of pollution & high pressure, the Great Smog that covered this capital for 5 days in 1952 claimed thousands of lives & led to changes in law London |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $600: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) The hottest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was here in the good old U.S.A.; 134 degrees Fahrenheit in this desolately named spot near the Panamint Mountains Death Valley |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $800: (Daisy Edgar-Jones presents the clue.) Never mind the usual comparison to golf balls, how about a volleyball? In South Dakota in 2010, the largest of these ever measured, came down at 8 inches across & weighed about 2 pounds a hailstone |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $1000: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) The Saffir-Simpson scale categorizing hurricanes is named in part for Robert Simpson, who was interested in meteorology from age 6 when this alliterative rise in sea level interrupted his dinner in Corpus Christi a storm surge |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | HATS ON $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1860s he designed an all-weather felt hat he called "The Boss of the Plains" (John) Stetson |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WE PUT IT IN SPACE $1600: The weather satellite GOES-16 was launched in 2016 by NOAA, short for this administration the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BRITSPEAK $400: A pea-souper is a thick one of these weather conditions fog |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BRITSPEAK $2000: There's a primate in this British expression that refers to freezing weather; the Beastie Boys song is about booze brass monkey |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | -OLOGIES $4,200 (Daily Double): Remove 2 letters from the study of weather to get this, the study of weights & measures metrology |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | ASSAULTS & BATTERIES $200: Cold weather can reduce a battery's power, so a car battery label lists its CCA, or cold cranking these units of current amps |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | AN INVITATION TO THE DANCE $2000: Fayard & Harold were the first names of these brothers, whose amazing moves lit up the screen in films like "Stormy Weather" the Nicholas Brothers |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $800: On the French Revolutionary calendar, Dec. 21 was the 1st day of Nivôse, a month named for this weather condition snow |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | DECADES $800: The "Dirty" these saw extreme weather, economic collapse & pre-code movies like "She Couldn't Say No" the Dirty Thirties |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $800: The science of climate & weather meteorology |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $2000: A 2007 Chinese missile test to destroy one of these in orbit added more than 3,000 pieces of trackable debris an artificial satellite (a weather satellite) |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $600: In 1991 this island that's 3 times the size of Texas hit -93 at a weather station Greenland |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $2000: This calm & peaceful word describes weather or ahhh... those idyllic days of youth halcyon |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $200: Some areas in the south have mild weather year-round:
BC British Columbia |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $800: On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane a tropical storm |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1200: Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Type of evening in the title of a 1923 Frost poem snowy |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $600: It comes "on little cat feet" according to Carl Sandburg, so let up on the gas fog |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: Pirates be roaming in the novel titled this condition "in Jamaica" a high wind |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: Saul Bellow's Henderson gets this appellation in Africa the Rain King |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | OKLAHOMA! $1000: The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center is in this city, also home to the University of Oklahoma Norman |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $600: Loved your Mar. 4, 1841 speech, despite the weather! 1 hour, 45 minutes of awesome! Now it's clear skies for your presidency! William Henry Harrison |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | CONTRONYMS $2000: It can mean to withstand something (a storm, for instance) as well as to erode under it weather |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | KICKIN' AZTEC $200: The Templo Mayor was dedicated to the sun god & to Tlaloc, god of this weather condition rain |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $800: This type of cold weather headgear takes its name from a battle site in the war where it was worn a balaclava |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $1600: The practice of putting ailing seamen below decks is a possible origin of this phrase meaning not feeling too good under the weather |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | INFLUENZA $1200: Research has linked influenza pandemics to this global weather event, El Niño's counterpart La Niña |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WORD PUZZLES $800: An extreme weather condition:
King Tiger
Queen Puma
King Chow Chow
Queen Jack Russell reigning cats & dogs |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GREASE & ROAM $200: A rating of 10W-40 means a multigrade engine oil has a viscosity of 10 in cold weather, 40 in warm; the "W" stands for this winter |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | MUSIC OF THE MONTH $2000: Weather report:
Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses assured us that "nothing lasts forever, even" this November rain |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $800: In search of weather extremes? St. Paul was a brisk -34 in 1936 & this southwest capital topped out at 122 in 1990 Phoenix |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $800: Lewis Fry Richardson proposed doing this with 64,000 computers (those were people then) & data from a world network of balloons forecasting the weather |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | SINGIN' IN THE RAIN $300: For the Weather Girls in 1982, it was raining these, "tall, blond, dark & lean" men |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | 4, 4 $400: It's defined as a short period of very chilly weather that occurs rather suddenly cold snap |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | UNDER STUDY $5,000 (Daily Double): It sounds like it might be the study of shooting stars, but it's the science of the atmosphere, weather & weather forecasting meteorology |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | SAFE $200: Ships threatened by inclement weather often sought "safe" this, now also a term for a protective legal provision harbor |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE FRIEND ZONE $400: In the 1600s, you could have this kind of ship's captain, who was no use in storms; now we talk mostly about this kind of friend a fair-weather friend |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | CLIMATE $1200: Affecting weather worldwide, it's a female-named periodic anomaly of cooler temperatures in the southeastern Pacific Ocean La Niña |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $600: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) Severe weather events can be predicted earlier & more accurately, thanks to radar using the frequency shifting event named for this man Doppler |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $1000: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) Ironically, propeller planes were the first to encounter this atmospheric region of high-speed wind that affects weather across the globe the jet stream |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | PLANE TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, "ceiling and" this "unlimited" visibility |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | JUST TAKE THE L $1000: A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete clement & cement |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | DANGER! DANGER! $200: National Weather Service danger signs of this impending phenomenon include a dark, often greenish sky & a roaring noise a tornado |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $200: Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come" these 2 opposites rain & shine |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $400: Starbucks sells a tea drink called London this Fog |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Joyce story ends with this falling "upon all the living and the dead" the snow |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1000: The EPA says keep this below 60% to prevent mold humidity |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $400: Told there'd likely be a June 6 break in bad weather that had delayed the invasion, this commander gambled & said, "OK, let's go" Eisenhower |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $200: "Gray Weather, Grand Jatte" tried to show nature's vivid outdoor clarity in all its nuances, according to this painter Georges Seurat |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN $400: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) In Franklin's day almanacs outsold all books except Bibles, and this one of Ben's was especially popular; to weather & crop info, he added maxims like "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | FROM THE SKY $400: Thought of as a mix of rain & snow by some, to weather pros it refers to snow that melts, then refreezes, as it falls sleet |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FEB BE WARY $200: If the critter sees this on Groundhog Day, tradition says we should be wary, with more bad weather in store its shadow |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: With subzero weather at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, vets suffered the long-term effects of this cold injury, including gangrene frostbite |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | "FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH $400: A weather report a forecast |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $400: It sounds like a computer game about an island, but in weather lore it's very fine water droplets at ground level mist |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $800: This discharge can be spider, forked or sheet lightning |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1200: I'm sick of the same weather again, the result of a stationary one of these where neither of the adjoining air masses can move a front |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1,500 (Daily Double): Matey, batten down the hatches! It be this 4-letter warning from the National Weather Service of sustained winds of 39-54 mph gale |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1600: Big fluffy snowflakes result from relative humidity of over 100%, this condition of water in the atmosphere supersaturation |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: In a holiday favorite, "The fire is so delightful and since we've no place to go", this title, this title, this title "Let It Snow" |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: The Scorpions sang, "Here I am, rock you like" one of these a hurricane |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: In this disco classic by The Weather Girls, the forecast was very unusual precipitation; "hallelujah!" "It's Raining Men" |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: Making some big noise, AC/DC "Got Some Rock & Roll" this, while Kiss staked a claim with "God Of" it Thunder |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: Bill Withers passed away in 2020 & as he sang, "Ain't No" this when he's gone Sunshine |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $800: It can mean honest or attractive, or refer to good weather fair |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | AMERICANA $1000: You didn't want to annoy the Catskill Witch, who in legend controlled the weather for this river valley the Hudson Valley |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | IT'S A SCIENCE $200: Atmospheric sciences include climatology & this, the study & forecasting of the weather meteorology |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SCIENCE: ODD BUT TRUE $1200: It was shorts weather on January 5, 1974 at Vanda Station on this continent--59 degrees, baby! Antarctica |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $400: Guinness noted that a 15-inch one of these fluttered down at Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887 a snowflake |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $800: A hygrometer measures this, the moisture content in the atmosphere humidity |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $1200: Pellets of ice have a diameter of less than 5mm; if the ice's diameter is between 5mm & 15cm, it's called this hail |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $1600: Most weather occurs in this 5-to-9-mile-thick layer of the atmosphere that's closest to Earth the troposphere |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $2000: Flooding in Venice has been aggravated by these Italian-named winds that originate in northern Africa scirocco |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | SCIENCE $2000: An isobar connects areas of equal barometric pressure on a weather map; a line that connects areas of equal temperature is this an isotherm |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The 1943 film, "Stormy Weather", featured some of the greatest Black entertainers of the day, including Bill Robinson, Dooley Wilson, & of course, this beloved actress & singer, then in her 20s, who wore this green velvet dress & sang the title song (Lena) Horne |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $400: Water moving at 9 feet per second is typical in this alliterative & sudden fast-moving event a flash flood |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $800: Heads up! According to the Natl. Severe Storms Laboratory, hail with a diameter of 4 1/2 inches is comparable in size to this fruit grapefruit |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $1200: Scientists still don't fully understand this rare phenomenon that has reportedly even made its way inside of houses ball lightning |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $1600: It's the 10-letter term for a column of rapidly swirling air occurring over a lake or ocean waterspout |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $2000: In 1985 this western state saw record low & high temperatures: -69 degrees at Peter Sinks & 117 in St. George Utah |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1600: In cold weather, your breath is visible as mist if it cools to this point at which it is fully saturated with water vapor the condensation point (dew point) |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $400: There's clearly inclement weather in Rihanna's song about this title object, which she offers shelter under an umbrella |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $800: The Beatles rejoiced, "Good Day" this & then rested "beneath a shady tree" Sunshine |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $1200: The Bangles noted, "Look around, leaves are brown and the sky is" this "shade of winter" hazy |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $1600: Guns N' Roses sang that "It's hard to hold a candle" in this type of cold autumn deluge November Rain |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $2000: In a Jimi Hendrix song, first the wind whispers, then cries, then screams her name Mary |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SCIENCE $1600: On weather maps, isobars are lines that join areas of equal measures of this (atmospheric) pressure |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | YOU'RE IN THE HOLE $800: This kind of rodent departs his burrow to make an annual weather prediction in Pennsylvania groundhog |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: I was "struck by" the plot twists in Dean Koontz' book about Laura Shane with this 1-word title Lightning |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: The infamous Red Wedding takes place in this author's "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1200: "Smilla's Sense of" this helps her solve a murder in Copenhagen the Snow |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: Dennis Lehane's "Prayers for Rain" is about a P.I. based in this East Coast city Boston |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: In this tale by Marion Zimmer Bradley, the King Arthur legend is retold through the eyes of women The Mists of Avalon |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | NEW PHONE, WHO DISCO? $800: "I wanna put on, my-my-my-my-my boogie shoes" by this "fair weather" group right onto that new phone KC and the Sunshine Band |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It was so cold in London in 1814 that a frost fair was held on this river that had frozen over the Thames |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: In Southern California, morning low clouds & fog during the sixth month are part of this near-rhyming phenomenon June gloom |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: It's the "colorful" term for a thin frozen film on the road that can lead to hazardous driving conditions black ice |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: It's the type of cloud seen here before it touches the ground & becomes a tornado a funnel cloud |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: A weathervane measures wind direction; one of these "meters" measures wind speed an anemometer |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $400: An AC/DC tune, or a word meaning flabbergasted; you've been...! "Thunderstruck" |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $800: One who never, ever gives up hope is an "eternal" this 8-letter word an optimist |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1200: Adjective for the nationality of a citizen living in Kharkiv or Donetsk a Ukrainian |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1600: This bird is famous for its lovely song heard after dark a nightingale (a nightin-gale) |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $2000: Late 19th century entertainers often toured the country this way, doing one-night shows in makeshift theaters barnstorming |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | MAPS $400: Meteorologist James Stagg used a weather map to persuade Allied commanders to invade Normandy on this date in 1944 June 6 |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | WHAT ARE THE ODDS? $200: The National Weather Service says that if you live to age 80, your odds of getting struck by this at least once are one in 15,300 lightning |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $2000: Continuity errors like changing weather in Rutger Hauer's death scene were fixed in Ridley Scott's "Final Cut" of this film Blade Runner |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT TALK $600: It used to mean pleasantness of weather; today it means mercy, such as a pardon, by a political leader clemency |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ALL ABOUT ART $800: This Impressionist's series paintings, done under different light & weather conditions, included haystacks & the Houses of Parliament Monet |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | PHENOMENA $1200: In 1816 one of these natural phenomena in Asia affected the weather & made it the "year without a summer" globally a volcanic eruption |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $1600: At the beginning of a Virginia Woolf novel, it's where Mrs. Ramsay tells her son James he may go if the weather is fine to the lighthouse |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | HAVE YOU HEARD? $400: Son, I say son, pay attention! It's the weather-related warning item sounding here! a foghorn |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | THAT'S GOTTA HURT! $400: In 2014 a man in Denton, Texas was a little under the weather after he was hit by softball-sized ones of these hail |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | FEMALE SUPERHEROES $600: A member of the X-Men, Ororo Munroe is this weather-controlling mutant Storm |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | APTLY NAMED $400: In 1999 Sara Blizzard joined the BBC as a presenter of this the weather |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $200: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The weather upped the stakes for "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X". The castaways had to be temporarily evacuated from their camps due to Zena, this tropical storm that can also be called a hurricane or a typhoon cyclone |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $200: In 1937 a search party was sent for one of the goalies when a soccer game was stopped in England due to this weather condition fog |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $600: Non-fluid aneroid barometers use a partial one of these instead of mercury to measure air pressure vacuum |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 2-week period in 2018, the East Coast was walloped by 3 of these storms named for the direction from which they came nor'easters |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $1000: Doppler weather systems use this type of technology to detect weather patterns radar |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | SPEAK TO ME OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES $200: A pea souper is one of these weather phenomenons a fog |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | "C"IENCE $600: These clouds, whose names begin with "C-U", were identified in 1802 & are associated with nice weather cumulus |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | I BLESS THE RAINS $1000: Though this weather system can cause terrible flooding, as in Gujarat in 2005, people depend on its rain for their water the monsoons |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $1600: The American Meteorological Society defines it as "a period, in mid- or late autumn, of abnormally warm weather" Indian summer |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | TECH TALK $800: Air traffic controllers know airmets are in-flight advisories about changes in this weather |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | METEOROLOGY $800: When one of these devices that measures air pressure is falling, wet weather is likely on the way a barometer |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $1200: Animals react to winter weather in different ways; monarch butterflies set off on this type of journey a migration |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | PICTURE THE IDIOM $1000: Note the lovely weather; it means to take advantage of an opportunity make hay while the sun shines |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | CLIMATE $400: With its own TV channel, this is the short term (minutes to weeks) manifestation of climate weather |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $1600: A Winslow Homer has this weather condition in the title--the fisherman & his halibut catch are threatened by a bank of it fog |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $1,000 (Daily Double): The patron saint of Mediterranean sailors gave his name to this phenomenon seen on the masts of ships in stormy weather St. Elmo's fire |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $400: In early 2017 an unlikely tornado struck this southeastern state in Germany called Bayern by locals Bavaria |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $600: A S.C. man said this experience "cooks you from the inside out like being in a microwave" & says it's happened to him 11 times being struck by lightning |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $800: Traveling at 35 miles per hour, here's a 2000' high dust storm over this southwestern capital city in the year 2012 Phoenix |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $1000: In 2013 there were 114-degree temps in La Rioja, the wine belt of this South American country Argentina |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | LYRICALLY INACCURATE $200: "Thunder only happens when it's raining" is sung in "Dreams" by this band--that weather report is inaccurate Fleetwood Mac |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $800: Very cold weather descends on 2 WASPy New England families in the 1970s in this Rick Moody novel Ice Storm |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | COUNTRY FACTS $400: weather.com calls Oymyakon in this country the world's coldest city, with -90 temps & bonfires needed at winter funerals Russia |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: The old man is snoring, so this must be the current weather condition it's pouring |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Bad weather & crop failure caused a "Great" one of these in the 1300s; the Irish also had a "Great" one, 1845-1850 a famine |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | CONFUSING LYRICS $600: In this Stephen Foster song, "it rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry, the sun so hot I froze to death" "Oh! Susanna" |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | JACK WHO OR WHAT? $1200: This guy, a type of weather personified, is seen here Jack Frost |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | EARTH SCIENCE $400: In a double one of these weather phenomena, the colors in the secondary one are reversed a rainbow |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | GOVT. ABBREV. $800: To the FAA, MWP is the meteorological processor of this; (sounds redundant) weather |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | -OLOGIES $800: It's the study of the atmosphere & weather, not of shooting stars meteorology |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | UNIONS ONLINE $200: In any weather you can visit nalc.org, for the National Association of these Carriers letter carriers |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | CLUES ACROSS PHILADELPHIA $600 (Daily Double): (I'm Jim Gardner from 6ABC.) Naturally, the science institute named for Ben Franklin has a permanent exhibit on this, the subject of a book on Ben Franklin's work published in 1751 electricity |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $1000: We give the mild weather you might find in Florida a "B"-plus, this adjective balmy |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $200: Expressed as a percentage, it's all "relative" this, the water vapor in the air at any given time & temp humidity |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a weather model on the monitor.) When frigid air moves under warm air, pushing it up & producing heavy rain or snow, it forms one of these 2-word zones a cold front |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $600: In April 2017 the governor of this large state declared an end to the drought emergency... for now California |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $800: Most weather occurs in this lowest "sphere" of the Earth's atmosphere that extends up to around 12 miles the troposphere |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $1000: It's the term for a warm layer above a cool one when going higher in the atmosphere; the reverse is what's normal an inversion layer |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | TELEVISION $400: Paddy's Pub is the fictional bar in this sitcom whose title is a weather forecast It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | GET "OUT"! $600: It's the 10-letter weather phenomenon seen here a waterspout |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $400: "A" is the only vowel in this cold-weather mask & cap combo a balaclava |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? $800: "Weather" refers to short-term conditions; this is the average weather at a particular location over time climate |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $400: It's British for potato chip & American for bracing or invigorating weather crisp |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | IN A STORM $1200: Quemado, N.M., known for electrical storms, is home to the art piece of 400 steel poles called this weather event field a lightning field |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $400: Advection (common in San Francisco) & upslope are 2 main types of this visibility reducer fog |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $800: If the UVI, standing for this, is above 10, it will take only 10 minutes to get a sunburn the ultraviolet index |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $1200: One millibar, a measurement of atmospheric pressure, equals .75 millimeters of this element, Hg mercury |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $1600: From the type of plant they resemble, these ice crystals are alliteratively called this type of frost fern frost |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $2000: Around 1806 this British commander drew up a "wind force scale and weather notation" Francis Beaufort |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE HAROLD $2000: He composed many classic songs including "Stormy Weather" & "Over The Rainbow" Harold Arlen |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | EVERY YEAR $1600: Hampton, S.C. has been holding a warm-weather festival in honor of these large gourd fruits since 1939 watermelons |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | FREEZE FRAME $1200: In a depressing 1997 film about '70s key parties, this title weather condition freezes New Canaan, Connecticut the ice storm |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | SOUNDS, INTERESTING $400: The noise level of this type of cold-weather recreational item has been reduced by over 90% since the 1960s a Ski-Doo (or a snowmobile or skimobile) |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The rare Galápagos penguin--remember, we're close to the equator--thrives on the nutrient-rich, cold waters that well up from the depths of the ocean; thus, the warmer waters of this Spanish-named weather phenomenon can be disastrous to it El Niño |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $200: Stated otherwise, this metaphor might be "pouring down Manx & Affenpinschers" raining cats and dogs |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $400: Standing in the relative peace of the beach, you'd experience this idiom of impending turmoil the calm before the storm |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $600: A pal who supports you only when it's easiest to do so a fair-weather friend |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $800: Involving the fourth & fifth months, it suggest that enduring travails can lead to joy April showers bring May flowers |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $1000: To take attention from another; it literally happened to a guy who came up with a stage audio effect to steal one's thunder |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN? $400: On Halloween 2012 the New York Stock Exchange reopened after being closed for 2 days due to this weather event Hurricane Sandy |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | "R"2 "D"2 $1000: In Native American lore, this winged creature is capable of producing severe weather the thunderbird |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Northerners who head for Florida as soon as the weather gets cold snowbirds |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | TRAVEL FRANCE $400: In 1889 a weather station was installed on its third & highest floor to measure wind speed & air pressure the Eiffel Tower |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can precede proof, stripping or bureau weather |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | JOURNALING JOURNEYERS $800: Alexander Frater was "Chasing" this wet weather event around India to see its impact the monsoon |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $400: With Amarillo No. 1, this state has 4 of the Weather Channel's 10 windiest U.S. cities Texas |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $400: This type of storm includes cold, 35+ mph winds & snow reducing visibility to 1/4 mile or less for at least 3 hours a blizzard |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $800: The circular wind motion during this event goes clockwise in the S. Hemisphere; the Indian Ocean sees tropical ones a cyclone |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $1200: Erratic weather has been tied to this speedy air current in the troposphere varying from its west-east path the jetstream |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $1600: A Category 4 hurricane hitting a wide & shallow continental shelf can produce a 20-foot this alliterative phrase a storm surge |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $2000: Brazil's highest peak is 9,800-foot Pico da Neblina, Neblina being this weather condition that surrounds the summit fog |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | U.S. GOVT. ABBREV. $1600: NOAA:
Keeps track of the weather & climate data the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | SUMMERY $600: Marilyn Monroe & Martha & the Vandellas both had songs titled this, a period of exceptionally hot weather "Heat Wave" |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | SAVING UP $800: An emergency fund sees you through losing your job; this weather-named fund is for onetime expenses like major car repairs a rainy day fund |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T "BAD" $600: This song by CCR says, "Looks like we're in for nasty weather" "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: Brontophobia is fear of this paired weather phenomenon thunder & lightning |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | -OLOGIES $400: For a B.S. degree in this -ology, you have to take courses like weather forecasting & climate dynamics meteorology |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Beastie Boys could tell you "brass" this animal refers to weather that's really cold brass monkey |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | EARTH SCIENCE $800: Ancient Greek for "slope" gives us this weather word much in the news for the way it's changing climate |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) In the flash-bang method, after a lightning flash, count until you hear thunder, then divide that number by 5 to find how many miles away the storm is because it takes roughly 5 seconds for this to travel 1 mile sound |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $800: In 2015 a Delta plane's nose cone was damaged & windshields cracked by this type of precipitation hail |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) The warm waters near the Equator are breeding grounds for hurricanes, and as the warm air rises in the storm, this area of low pressure forms the eye |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $1600: The "Super Outbreak of 2011" is named for more than 300 of these that struck 15 states tornadoes |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $2000: Rapidly swirling air over a lake can make one of these: the Itsy-Bitsy Spider knows about the word in another sense a waterspout |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $1000: The observatory on the summit of this New Hampshire mountain provides guided tours of its weather station Mount Washington |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $400: One of these can travel at a third the speed of light & heat the air in its path to more than 50,000 degrees a lightning bolt |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $800: This state's Kona storms are characterized by strong southerly or southwesterly winds & heavy rains Hawaii |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $1200: In 1919 Norwegian meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes announced the discovery of these zones where air masses meet fronts |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $1,600 (Daily Double): On the Beaufort scale, this 4-letter wind is stronger than a breeze but not as violent as a storm a gale |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $2000: Developed in the 1940s, cloud seeding produces rain by saturating clouds with dry ice & this compound, AgI silver iodide |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | PREPOSITIONAL IDIOMS $800: It's what you're "under" if you're feeling ill the weather |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | LAST LETTER, FIRST LETTER $400: You tune in to this on the news to find out how bad it's raining a weather report |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | SOUNDS LIKE A PIECE OF FURNITURE $400: An office or department for transacting a certain business, it may follow News, Travel, & Weather Bureau |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THINGS TO DO BEFORE $400: "Seasonal" verb meaning to prepare a car for cold weather by adding antifreeze, or to prep a house, using insulation winterizing |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1600: "Stormy Weather"--this singer & actress Lena Horne |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: If this is 100% an 85-degree day can feel like it's 108 degrees humidity |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: 5-letter name for raindrops that freeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground sleet |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: A stationary one of these boundaries between air masses can stay in the same region for days a front |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: As its name implies, the website blitzortung.org lets users track this atmospheric phenomenon around the world lightning |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: (Hi. I'm Al Roker.) A sudden onset of winds increasing by at least 18 mph; it precedes "line" to describe a line of active thunderstorms squall |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | MARINE BIOLOGY $400: This weather warming phenomenon that occurs every 3-7 years caused the death of much coral in 1997 & 1998 El Niño |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | TRAVEL USA $800: You can visit a weather museum at the top of this New Hampshire peak, reachable via a cog railway Mt. Washington |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $1000: Chapter 5 of "Weather for Dummies" covers cloud names & is punningly titled "Getting" this type of cloud cirrus |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THE WRIGHT BROTHERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial.) Seeking a place for test flights with strong winds, privacy & sand for soft landings, the Wrights wrote a letter to the U.S. weather bureau & received a list of possible locations; this small fishing village on North Carolina's Outer Banks was just perfect Kitty Hawk |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | "R" SONG $2000: The Carpenters found the weather & the calendar a drag in this 1971 hit "Rainy Days And Mondays" |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | 1890s AMERICA $400: Farmers got help with forecasts as the weather bureau was moved from the military to this Cabinet department Agriculture |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially said that bad weather & poor navigation were to blame for any loss of transports in the area between Miami, Puerto Rico & this island Bermuda |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $400: Ones that fell in New Mexico really were the size of golf balls hail |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $800: The media dubbed Hurricane Sandy this 10-letter name, which sounds perfect for the Avengers superstorm |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | ON THE LETTERHEAD $800: Before a govt. commission, Richard Feynman showed how cold weather damaged these space shuttle parts the O-rings |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $1200: (Hi, I'm ABC meteorologist Ginger Zee.) In 2013 I was chasing storms on I‑35 & I‑44, but was shocked by the devastation that I saw in the community of Moore in this state Oklahoma |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $1600: During the 1952 "Great Smog" in this metropolis, folks in the Isle of Dogs area couldn't see their own feet London |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $2000: A rapid shift of wind velocity or direction is called "wind" this, which pilots are always on the lookout for shear |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This Frenchman experimented with light in series paintings, as in his "Haystacks" under different weather & times of day Monet |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | DEVICES $400: (Hi. I'm ABC meteorologist Ginger Zee.) Forecasters use this device invented in 1643 to detect changes in air pressure & predict weather; climbers can also use it to determine altitude because air pressure decreases as altitude increases a barometer |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | 2-WORD RHYMING PHRASES $1000: In Southern California, June Gloom is typically preceded by this month of similar weather May Gray |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $1000: This Heritage brand calls itself "all weather" professional hairspray Aqua Net |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $1200: Lines called isobars & isotherms show up on these maps weather maps |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | MARK YOUR CALENDARS $200: Must we tell you over & over again that this day, February 2, is partly based on ancient weather signs? Groundhog's Day |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $400: It forms on blades of grass in the morning because of condensation dew |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $800: Cape Verde-type hurricanes develop as storms off this continent & then become hurricanes before reaching the Caribbean Africa |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $1200: You can build your own hygrometer using a human hair; the hair lengthens as this increases humidity |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $1600: In a bad storm, so many people resort to this more-than-breakfast restaurant, FEMA bases an index on its operations Waffle House |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $2000: Drizzle often falls from this lowest type of cloud, which looks like a smooth, even sheet stratus |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $200: The body's growth & development are controlled by these chemical substances hormones |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $400: To afflict with great bodily or mental suffering torment |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $600: This religion originated in the U.S. but a majority of its members live outside the country the Mormons |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $800: Trademarked countertop covering Formica |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $1000: Ancient Babylonian writing cuneiform |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | THE DESOLATION OF SMOG $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Smog episodes in urban areas are intensified when normally low-lying, warm air moves on top of a cold layer, creating this weather condition that traps pollutants (thermal) inversion |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | LET'S DUKE IT OUT $4,000 (Daily Double): The Duke of Northumberland (1504-1553) arranged for his son to marry this unfortunate lady in 1553; oops Lady Jane Grey |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $400: The heroine of this Disney movie hangs out with guys named Dopey & Sneezy Snow White |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $800: Dustin Hoffman played a savant with autism who watches "Jeopardy!" in this film Rain Man |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $1200: This 2009 title sounds like a very odd forecast Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $1600: In "Some Like It Hot", this female sex symbol strums the ukulele Marilyn Monroe |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $2000: Denzel Washington played imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter in this film with a stormy title The Hurricane |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | WORLD OF WATERCRAFT $800: 3-word name of the boating weather advisory issued when winds reach 20+ knots along with dangerous wave conditions a small-craft advisory |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1792 Robert Thomas first published this almanac about New England life &, of course, the weather The Farmer's Almanac |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | JUST A FEW LITTLE BUGS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) African termite mounds, which can be as high as 40 feet, contain intricate systems of ventilation shafts to regulate this, no matter what the weather outside temperature |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | METEOROLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) It's the 2-word term for a transition zone between an advancing mass of higher temperature air & a retreating cooler one a warm front |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | METEOROLOGY $2000: Typhoons, hurricanes & the lows on weather maps are all examples of these atmospheric circulations cyclones |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THIS IS N-P-R $200: Directional term for a drenching bit of weather; don't get caught in a heavy one downpour |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $200: By Feb. 2014 this city closed the Thames Barrier a record number of times, protecting it from tidal flooding London |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows time-elapse satellite imagery of a storm on the monitor.) On October 22, 2012, it began as a tropical depression over the Caribbean, Jamaica got it as a hurricane two days later & by October 29th, this superstorm had a 1,000-mile-wide diameter as it reached the eastern United States Sandy |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $600: "It's as if God is trying to tell me something, but I don't know what that is", a man said after the 6th time this happened he was struck by lightning |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows time-elapse satellite imagery of a storm on the monitor.) On November 5, 2013, with 74-plus-mile-per-hour winds, the storm called Haiyan was classified as this; winds hit 195 miles per hour by the time it reached the Philippines a typhoon |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $1000: In 2008 120-mph winds hit the Irrawaddy Delta in this country Myanmar (formerly Burma) |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: A Home Depot how-to video on this says "one of the easiest ways to save is by making our homes airtight" weather-stripping |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $200: From 2006 to 2013, 261 people in the United States were killed by this weather phenomenon; only 8 were golfers lightning |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $400: From the Middle English for "fall of dew", it's a light rain in which the water droplets are less than .5 mm in diameter drizzle |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $600: If there are more than 21 named Atlantic storms in one season, nos. 22 & up are named from letters of this alphabet the Greek alphabet |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $800: In this index, 11+ means extreme exposure & you should avoid the sun between the hours of 10:00 A.M. & 4:00 P.M. the UV index |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $1000: Spanish for "little girl", it brings wetter, cooler conditions to the Pacific Northwest & drier conditions to the South La Niña |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: Maybe the weather was bad in 1903, when Mary Anderson created this for cars; it had a swinging arm & a rubber blade a windshield wiper |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TWITTER FEEDS $1000: This San Francisco weather condition has its own Twitter feed; it's named Karl, & it notes, "Not all those in" it "are lost" fog |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS $800: Meaning merciful, it describes good weather; in a kind words category, we need it without the "in" at the start clement |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | CONTRONYMS $1600: Nasty this we're having; it can mean both to withstand & to wear away weather |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WHO LET THE GODS OUT? $800: Like his Norse counterpart Thor, Perun was the Slavic god of this weather phenomenon thunder and lightning |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $400: humanesociety.org has a page called "Fear of" this "and Other Loud Noises" thunder |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $800: Santa Anas are dry ones winds |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $1200: In 5 letters, "unpleasantly moist & humid" muggy |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $1600: Jesucristo, o un episodio calido El Niño |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $2000: Remember "The Great" one of March 1888? blizzard |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | "RH" FACTOR $1600: It's an underground stem that can produce new roots, helping plants reproduce despite nasty weather a rhizome |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | FROM SOUP TO NUTS $400: Under the weather? Try chicken soup with these spheres of unleavened bread matzo balls |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $400: The Harmattan is a West African trade wind that blows from this desert south to the Gulf of Guinea the Sahara |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $800: The Grand Banks, where the Gulf Stream meets the Labrador Current, may lead the world in this visibility-reducing condition fog |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $1200: In November 2013 typhoon Haiyan swept through this Asian nation, killing thousands the Phillipines |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $1600: A radiosonde is an instrument package used by meteorologists, usually carried into the air by one of these a balloon |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $2000: For pilots C&V is this, the height of the lowest cloud layer, "& visibility" ceiling |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | LET'S SPEAK CANADIAN $1000: Perfect for the cooler weather, a "tuque" is one of these a hat (or knitted cap) |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $400: This "fire" appears on the masts of ships in stormy weather St. Elmo's fire |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | WARM $600: Because it's located near the equator, Mombasa in this country enjoys good weather all year Kenya |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SPOT ME $2000: Neptune has a great dark spot & a small dark spot & both are "anti-" these weather phenomena anticyclones |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | TV ADJECTIVES $400: It's a weather forecast & a TV show:
"It's Always ____ in Philadelphia" Sunny |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | BLOWING MY MIND $2000: A cold, dry wind that's one of Provence's main local weather phenomena; the judge has declared it this a mistral |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $400: To fix prices or wages at a current level, or to immobilize, as with fear freeze |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $800: To yell to catch a taxi driver's attention hail |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $1200: To sing lead for a rock band front |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $1600: To pour in a fine stream, like syrup over pancakes drizzle |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $2000: To send too much fuel to the carburetor, causing an unsuccessful ignition flood |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | ART TERMS $4,195 (Daily Double): This type of paint is dry pigment mixed with an emulsion; the egg type is not usually affected by weather & humidity tempera |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: These hibiscuses are used to taking on water in this state, where you'll find the U.S.A.'s wettest weather station Hawaii |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $200: A down under tradition since 1937 is these "by candlelight", with Aussies singing outdoors in the summer weather carols |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | COATS & JACKETS $2,500 (Daily Double): This trademark long raincoat is perfect for the weather condition in its name London Fog |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | PLYMOUTH COLONY $800: The colonists had intended to settle near the mouth of this New York river but were blown off course due to stormy weather the Hudson |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | WICKED $600: My name is Madame Morribile & "weather is my specialty", which creates a huge plot twist when I conjure up this weather phenomenon the tornado |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | COMIC BOOK WOMEN $1200: A descendent of an ancient line of sorceresses, she can control the weather & has led the X-Men on occasion Storm |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | I HOSTED FAMILY FEUD... $800: & tell you the weather every morning on the "Today" show Al Roker |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | HAWAII... NOT! $1000: The Qiangtang Basin in the north of this high Asian plateau features freezing weather, rocky soil & brackish lakes the Tibetan Plateau |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $800: Songs by cantor's son Harold Arlen include this one that begins, "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky" "Stormy Weather" |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | WEATHER $400: On May 3, 1999 one of these with record 318-mph winds ripped through Moore, Oklahoma a tornado |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | U.S. STAMPS $800: A 2012 series of stamps honored these roof toppers that tell which way the wind is blowing a weather vane |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $4,200 (Daily Double): A weather event off Cape Ann Oct. 30, 1991 popularized this phrase for when a lot of bad things happen at once a perfect storm |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $200: Like our "Indian" one, a spell of warm, pleasant weather in October in Greece is called this "of St. Dimitrios" Summer |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It can be a dry spell in the weather or, for a batter, going a long time without a hit a drought |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $600: A 10 on the modern Beaufort scale for this means ocean waves will have dense white streaks wind |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: Also a cloud surrounding a deity, it's the type of cloud that brings rain nimbus |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot wrote, "under the brown" one of these "of a winter dawn, a crowd flowed over London Bridge" "fog" |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $1200: Part of NOAA, it issues watches & warning for tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. the National Weather Service |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | NEWSWORDY $2000: Change the last syllable in "thunderstorm" to get this weather event that hit the Great Plains in winter 2013 thundersnow |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | QUIRKY NEWS $600: Some golf opens have weather delays; the one in this country, seen here, was delayed by interference on the fairway Australia |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | CALIFORNIA $800: From 1934 to 1938 Al Capone enjoyed the California weather & lifestyle at this location Alcatraz |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | RADIO, RADIO $800: Gilda Radner was the weather girl on WCBN, the campus broadcasting network of this Michigan college town Ann Arbor |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742 Faneuil Hall |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | WEBSITES $800: The Weather Channel website has a section for allergy sufferers that lists "hot spots" for this stuff pollen |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $800: In the short story "To Build" this, a newcomer to the Yukon struggles to keep warm in the frigid weather a Fire |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC 2013 $400: Your 2013 weather forecast: expect fewer tornadoes but be ready for these to threaten the Gulf & Atlantic Coasts in June hurricanes |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $200: It gets hot in El Azizia, near Tripoli, in this country--hot like 124 degrees one day in 1922 Libya |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $400: Want variety? Over two days in 1916 the temperature in Browning, in this state, went from 44 to -56 degrees Montana |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $600: Raindrops won't be fallin' on your head in Arica, in this South American country; it takes 30+ years to get one inch of rain Chile |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $800: On April 12, 1934 Mount Washington, in this state, got quite a blow--wind clocked at 231 mph New Hampshire |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $1000: Better bring an umbrella to Lloro, near this South American country's Pacific coast, said to average 40 feet of rain a year Colombia |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $400: "Riders On The Storm" was the last song this Doors vocalist ever recorded; he died in Paris a few months later Jim Morrison |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $800: "The answer, my friend", is this No. 2 Peter, Paul & Mary song written by Bob Dylan "Blowin' In The Wind" |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $1200: John Fogerty wrote this group's protest song "Who'll Stop The Rain" Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $1600: In this 1963 hit Martha & the Vandellas sang, "Whenever I'm with him something inside starts to burning" "Heat Wave" |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $2000: In 1970 Anne Murray told it to "spread your tiny wings & fly away" "Snowbird" |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of parts of England and France.) The crossing of the English Channel would have been 21 miles straight, but because of bad weather on August 6, 1926, a 35-mile route was swum by this Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | STARTS WITH "M" $1000: They are the heavy-weather boots seen here mukluks |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | THOR'S DAY $400: Thor is an Old Norse word for this weather phenomenon thunder |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | JEOPARDY! ENNUI $1000: This government agency with a lightning bolt logo says sunshine all next week; will it never end? the National Weather Service |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | EVERYTHING'S OK $1000: The National Weather Service's storm prediction center is in this city, also home to the University of Oklahoma Norman |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | THE WALKING DEAD $400: Russell, a vampire on this HBO show, took over a TV newscast, said he'd eat us all, then threw it to Tiffany for the weather True Blood |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $600: Loved your Mar. 4, 1841 speech, despite the weather! 1 hour, 45 minutes of awesome! Now it's clear skies for your presidency! William Henry Harrison |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | MAKING THE GRADE $800 (Daily Double): From an EF-0 to an EF-5, the enhanced Fujita scale is used to grade the intensity of these weather events a tornado |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | SCIENTIFIC THEORIES $1200: The Butterfly Effect--its flapping wings changing the weather--is an example of this theory exploring randomness chaos theory |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | ANCHORS AWEIGH $600: This name for a heavy garment worn by sailors in cold weather comes from a word for cloth, not a vegetable a peacoat |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $400: In 1869 Cleveland Abbe began predicting storms & became the first to offer daily these forecasts |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $800: In the late 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier determined that air is mostly this element nitrogen |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $1200: With these instruments, Blaise Pascal proved that air pressure is reduced with altitude a barometer |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $2000: It was proposed in 1902 that radio waves bounce back to Earth from an electrified layer of the atmosphere later termed this the ionosphere |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1944 bombers at high altitude were speedily propelled forward--what's now called this 2-word phenomenon a jet stream |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: More overcast than yesterday's weather cloudier |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $200: In 2012 Spicewood became the first Texas community to truck in water during the most recent one of these dry spells a drought |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $400: In Montreal in 1998 this was 2 inches thick on some branches, damaging 94% of trees in the Ville Emard district ice |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $600: In May 2011 a 200-mph tornado devastated Joplin in this state Missouri |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $800: In 1889 one of these near Johnstown, Pennsylvania burst during heavy rains; the flood killed 2,000 a dam |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $1000: On Aug. 24, 1992 hurricane Andrew made landfall near Homestead in this state, causing $26 billion in damage Florida |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $400: On a weather map this type of front is usually indicated by a blue line with blue triangles a cold front |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | FEDERAL AGENCIES $600: The first weather & communications satellites were developed under the auspices of this federal agency NASA |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: This word can precede balloon, bureau & vane weather |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | SHADOWS $1200: This Pennsylvania weather prognosticator has failed to see his shadow only 14 times in the last 100 years Punxsutawney Phil |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | HOMOPHONES $2000: The state of the atmosphere, or a conjunction that introduces an alternative weather/whether |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | LEARN SOME GERMAN $600: A weather adjective:
neblig foggy |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VIRAL VIDEOS $400: Oh my God! Paul Vasquez' excitement over this weather phenomenon has passed 30 million hits a double rainbow |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $400: 2 major deities of the Zapotecs of Mexico: Coquihani, the god of light, & Cocijo, the god of this weather phenomenon rain |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $200: "Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it" the weather |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: To have a casual conversation is to "shoot" this the breeze |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: To survive a difficult situation is to "weather" this the storm |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: When you show somebody up or get attention that is due others, you "steal" their this their thunder |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: When you're down & out, you're said to be "in" this belt of calm, light winds near the equator the doldrums |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $5,600 (Daily Double): It's the 5-word phrase associated with the logo seen here "When it rains, it pours" |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | SYMBOLOGY $1200: In a weather report (keep your response P.C.) partly cloudy |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | ELF-HELP $2000: In "The Year Without a Santa Claus", elves Jingle & Jangle dealt with the weather-controlling Heat & Snow these the Misers |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | YULE TUBE $2000: Featuring warm weather & fireworks:
"Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in ____" July |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... $400: "vt 1 archaic: to plan ahead... 2 a...to predict (weather conditions)" forecast |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $400: In June 2003 a record one of these, 18.75 in. around, dropped in on Aurora, Nebraska a hailstone |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $800: The most destructive part of a hurricane is the "wall" surrounding this central area of the storm the eye |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $1600: Still a scientific mystery, the ball type of this appears as a glowing sphere & has sometimes been seen in houses lightning |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $2000: Invented by French scientist Lucien Vidie in 1843, this type of barometer uses a metal capsule instead of mercury an aneroid barometer |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $7,800 (Daily Double): Meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes popularized this 5-letter term for the place where warm & cold air masses meet front |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | -OLOGIES $200: The name of this -ology, the study of atmosphere & weather, comes from a book title by Aristotle meteorology |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $200: In winter these are often connected by a string that runs through the sleeves of a child's coat mittens |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $400: This hooded, fur-lined Inuit garment can also be called an anorak a parka |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $600: This raincoat with a glossy name can be made of oilskin, plastic or rubber a slicker |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $800: Its parts include ribs, stretchers & a crook handle an umbrella |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $1000: These sunglasses were introduced in 1929; the "Who's that behind those..." ads began in the 1960s Foster Grants |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $600: What his March 4, 1841 speech should have included: "Sorry, I'm cutting this short. The weather's awful & I should go inside" William Henry Harrison |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | LIFESAVING AT BONDI BEACH $400: (Kelly gives the clue from Bondi Beach.) In cold weather, hypothermia causes the body to lose heat faster than it can be produced; in hot weather, lifesavers often have to treat this opposite condition, from Greek for "overheating" hyperthermia |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | MAPS $1600: The world's first weather map was created by this English astronomer in 1686 & showed the trade winds Edmund Halley |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | THERE IS A SEASON $800: The National Weather Service says in the Atlantic, this perilous season begins on June 1 & ends Nov. 30 hurricane season |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $3,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "not merciful", it's a 9-letter word for harsh weather inclement |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $400: Despite its northern latitude, Great Britain boasts a mild climate due to this warm ocean current the Gulf Stream |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $800: Bring a jacket--this highest continent is also the windiest Antarctica |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $1200: An area of high pressure, often with good weather below, has this topographical name a ridge |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $2000: Ultraviolet radiation is mainly absorbed by the ozone layer in this larger layer of the Earth's atmosphere the stratosphere |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): These sultry days of July & August take their name from their association with the rising of the star Sirius the dog days (of summer) |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | SUMMER SCHOOL $200: A hot time in Calcutta, or a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn Indian summer |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | TREES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a botanical photo on the monitor.) Broad rings on a tree indicate years of sunshine & rain; narrow rings indicate cold or this weather condition, from the Middle English for "dryness" drought |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | D-DAY $400: The decision to go on June 6 was due to James Stagg, chief adviser to Eisenhower on this atmospheric science weather |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | WE ALL NEED A "FRIEND" $600: "Meteorological" acquaintance who only hangs out with you when things are good fair-weather friend |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $400: Here's Helios with the forecast: lots of rain in Athens from this god of weather & so much more... watch out for his lightning! Zeus |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | NAUTICAL TERMS $400: This lookout platform is named for the bird that would be released to find the nearest land in bad weather the crow's nest |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THEY'RE ON CABLE TV $400: Treacherous weather conditions on the Bering Sea make for rough crab fishing on this Discovery Channel show Deadliest Catch |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | SCOTT LAND $400: This weather man does "happy birthday" greetings on the "Today" Show Willard Scott |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $400: It's the 5-letter term for the advancing edge of an air mass a front |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $800: Gulf of Mexico moisture meets dry wind from the rockies to form twisters in this dangerous U.S. "Alley" Tornado Alley |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a weather map.) On a weather map, an isobar is a line that connects areas with the same barometric pressure. A line that connects areas with the same temperature is called this an isotherm |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $1600: In this temperature condition, a layer of warm air surmounts cooler air & traps pollutants near the ground an inversion |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $2000: These "equine" regions straddle the equator & are characterized by high pressure & relative calm the horse latitudes |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | ART $800: This Belgian artist's painting "Threatening Weather" includes a cloud shaped like a tuba Rene Magritte |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | RUSSIAN $800: "Idyot snyek" means this is happening, a common weather condition in January snowing |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | THEY'RE LOOKING OUT FOR US $800: The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is known alliteratively as these "hunters" hurricane hunters |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | IT'S RAINING $800: Petrichor is this distinctive sensation, a pleasant accompaniment to the first rain after dry weather the smell of rain |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | OH GIVE ME A HOME $600: ...with one of these metallic masts to protect it in stormy weather a lightning rod |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | WEIRD SCIENCE $600: The return stroke for this weather event takes about 100 microseconds & its temperature is around 50,000 degrees lightning |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | CALL ME A"LEX" $2000: A light transparent weather-resistant man-made thermoplastic Plexiglas |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | "P.M." $2000: A good soil conditioner, it's often spread on the ground to protect plants in hot, dry weather peat moss |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: This calm circular region at the center of a hurricane can range from a few miles in diameter to more than 100 the eye |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: This is defined as the amount of water vapor in the air the humidity |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: The flag seen here warns boaters of this type of moderately strong wind of about 34 to 54 miles per hour gales |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) A common weather pattern, bringing an abundance of warm, tropical moisture direct from Hawaii to the Pacific coast is popularly called this, like a 2008 comedy film the Pineapple Express |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $4,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) Named for the direction from which they come, much of our weather is carried across the United States & Canada by these dominant winds, between 30 & 60 degrees latitude westerlies |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE APARTMENT OF ENERGY $200: As in U.S. households as a whole, this warm weather appliance is my biggest user of electricity air conditioning |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE $600: Please note: "There is no guard mounting" (also known as this ceremony) "in very wet weather" Changing of the Guard |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHEER CHAOS $400: Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, posited that an insect's flapping wings could alter this, far away air currents (or the wind or the weather) |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $200: The original Ronald McDonald, today you know him better as the "Today" show's weather reporter Willard Scott |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | EVERYDAY ITALIAN $800: "Si, Signor Prazzi, fa molto caldo", informs Mr. Prazzi the weather is very this hot |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | SCIENTISTS $800: Some scientists predict this "seasonal" period of cold & dark weather would be the result of atomic warfare nuclear winter |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | OMAHA BEACH $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Omaha Beach in France.) This date of the Normandy invasion had been set for one day earlier, but because of bad weather, the 6,000 ships & 13,000 support planes had to wait June 6, 1944 |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | THE TEMPEST $800: The cold phase of the weather-causing phenomenon El Niño is referred to as "La" this Niña |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | CONTRONYMS $2,000 (Daily Double): It can mean to withstand something (a storm, for instance) as well as to erode under it weather |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | HAWAII $1000: These winds don't bring coffee, they bring warm & muggy weather to the islands the Kona winds |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | STAGE "RIGHT" $600: "Let It Snow" begins, "Oh the weather outside is" this frightful |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | FEEL THE PAINE $1000: In "The American Crisis, No. 1", Paine scorned "the summer soldier" & this other fair-weather fighter the sunshine patriot |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $200: In Death Valley it's the heat, not this, as this averages less than 5% humidity |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $400: North Central China has a climate like Kansas & also gets these choking "storms" in spring dust storms |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $600: In the upslope type of this visibility killer, air rises enough to cool to its dew point, causing condensation fog |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $800 (Daily Double): Legend says after pitcher Denton Young warmed up against a fence, someone said the fence looked like this had hit it a cyclone |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $800: The photo seen here captures a devastating 2007 one of these, also the title of a 1997 film ice storm |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | YOUR 5-CLUE NEWSCAST $1000: Now for a look at the weather; expect these dense 12-letter thunderclouds stretching from 6,500' to 30,000' cumulonimbus |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS $400: The lights hanging off the roof here are meant to resemble these things that can form in cold weather icicles |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $400: The first edition of this homespun almanac was published in 1792; it's known for valuable weather data The Farmer's Almanac |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $200: (Kelly and Sarah of the Clue Crew hold a deflated weather balloon; Kelly reads the clue.) Weather balloons are released twice a day at the National Weather Service; they can rise up to 100,000 feet, where a decrease in this will make the 6-foot balloon expand to 20 feet in diameter air pressure |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $400: (Sarah indicates a weather map on a monitor.) Colors on the screen reflect different echo intensities; steps are taken so this precipitation, balls of ice more than 1/5 inch in diameter, don't skew rain estimates hail |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $600: (Sarah holds a weather balloon transmitter.) Pre-transmitters, scientists went up in weather balloons themselves; the AMS, this society, gives the Meisinger Award in memory of one killed by lightning the American Meteorological Society |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $800: (Sarah indicates another monitor.) Watching Doppler the National Weather Service is fascinating--the expanding ring of blue is millions of these mammals that emerge in Texas only to tangle with a huge storm bats |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $1000: (Kelly reads the clue.) Many tornadoes develop from a special kind of thunderstorm called this, with a deep rotating updraft a supercell |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | I'M GETTING "C" SICK $2000: A blain is an inflammatory swelling; my exposure to icy weather may have given me this kind of "blain"--brrr! a chilblain |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | SHAKESPEARE GOES HAIKU $1000: You control weather /
Are you some kind
of X-Man?! /
Read Miranda rights The Tempest |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | "J.P." $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew doesn't fret at all.) This man who revolutionized bass playing with the group Weather Report made his own fretless bass by pulling out the frets & filling in the grooves Jaco Pastorius |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | ESOTERICA $600: This "Old" publication bases its weather forecasts on esoteric interpretations of natural phenomena the Old Farmer's Almanac |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | ON YOUR INDONESIA $1200: In 1816 the weather in New England was affected by Tambora, one of these in what's now Indonesia volcano |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | BUGGY $1000: Edward Lorenz' "effect" on how something small can make a big change in the weather is named for this insect the butterfly |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The Virgin Islands celebrate Thanksgiving in October to give thanks to the end of this weather "season" hurricane season |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | SLANGUAGE $400: "Snizzle" is not a Snoop Dogg term but a weather word for the mixture of these 2 conditions snowing & drizzling |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | INNOVATION $1600: In 1686 Edmond Halley, not Al Roker, published the first comprehensive one of these maps weather maps |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | "W"ORDPLAY $400: This 4-letter weather phenomenon is a result of the uneven heating of the Earth's surface wind |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $400: Sept. 4, 2007 was the first time that 2 of these, Henriette & Felix, made landfall on the same day hurricanes |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $800: Mountain passes speed up hot, dry air, giving this U.S. state its Santa Ana winds California |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $1200: The forecast is cloudy with a 30% chance of these, characterized by the sudden start & stop of light rainfall showers |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $1600: High clouds may bring this type of damaging precipitation, especially to the "alley" for it in the Rockies hail |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $2000: Longer autumn nights let the ground cool, producing condensation & the "ground" type of this fog |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | IT'S ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE $600: It's a weather term... Perhaps from a word for "long grass on damp ground", it describes a daze... I'm in one now... fog |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | ON OUR USO TOUR $400: (Alex glides in from the Kadena Air Base, Japan.) The all-weather surveillance command-and-control AWACS E-3 is known by this name, also used for a soldier standing guard a Sentry |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THE "A"s $1000: From the Greek for "slope", it's to adjust to a new set of conditions, not just to the weather to acclimate |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows satellite video of storm movement on two monitors at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) A tropical storm in the North Atlantic that reaches 74 miles per hour is called a hurricane; if it's here in the Northwest Pacific, it's classified as this a typhoon |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives us a a high level take on the weather at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) The Weather Channel uses this type of colorful satellite image to show the relative warmth of objects: colder ones are brighter while warmer objects are darker infrared |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a 3-D view of rugged terrain on the monitor at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) In 2006, the Weather Channel program "Beyond the Forecast" detailed the search for 3 climbers & how weather hindered rescue efforts on this Oregon mountain Mt. Hood |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew rains supreme at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Showing the density & motion of clouds, this type of radar named for an Austrian scientist can predict the formation of a tornado Doppler |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew is back on the map at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Fronts are boundaries where different air masses meet; alternating red & blue lines depict this type of front with little or no movement a stationary front |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | SCIENCE $1600: Changes in the tropospheric layer of this are what gives us weather the atmosphere |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $400: In March 1888 one of these blinding snowstorms struck the East Coast, creating 40-to-50-foot snowdrifts blizzard |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $800: On March 18, 1925 the most violent single one of these in U.S. history swept through Mo., Ill., & Ind., killing 695 tornado |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $1200: These, which may be described as softball-sized, begin in clouds as "embryos" to which frozen droplets adhere hailstones |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $1600: A single updraft or downdraft in a cloud; a severe thunderstorm may be multi- or super-it cell |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $2000: In a 24-hour period, July 26-27, 2005, just over 37 inches of rain fell on this megacity on India's west coast Bombay/Mumbai |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | CABLE CHANNELS $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew "reigns" on the set.) I'm at the headquarters of this network that was launched to a storm of skepticism, but is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007 The Weather Channel |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $600: If you have pluviophobia, the fear of this weather condition, we probably won't find you "singin' in" it rain |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | ALLITERATION ALLOTMENT $2,500 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the desk of the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) The Weather Channel believes that 1 degree can change the world, & that the lowering of these alliterative emissions can help greenhouse gases |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE WORLD $2000: Hurricanes are a weather phenomenon not to be ignored in this country Jamaica |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | RADIO CITIES $600: As "The Voice of" this city, WGN radio covers news, weather & Cubs baseball Chicago |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $200: Louis XIV's lasted 72 years a reign |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $400: In the 1880s this country promised to build a railroad for Bolivia, whose coastline it took away Chile |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $600: James Caan's character's name in "The Godfather" was Santino, but everyone called him this Sonny |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $1000: A container designed for cigars a humidor |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $2,500 (Daily Double): It's the architectural term for what the guy here is looking at a frieze |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE WIZARD OF ODDS $400: The National Weather Service says the odds of this painful event happening to you in a given year are 1 in 700,000 being struck by lightning |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | '60s MUSIC $800: "Looks like we're in for nasty weather" in this CCR hit from 1969 "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania town is the "weather capital of the world", not just on February 2, but all year long Punxsutawney |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $5,000 (Daily Double): Sagan was co-author of the first scientific paper to predict that this weather condition would follow atomic war nuclear winter |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | ON THE "TELE" $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew draws on a weather map on a screen.) One of the few Individual Engineering Emmy Awards went to Leonard Reiffel who invented this technology in the 1960s a telestrator |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $200: In a marine push, when ocean air replaces the existing air mass, this happens to the temperature it goes down (or gets colder) |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $400 (Daily Double): The first documented successful forecast of this was by 2 Air Force officers in 1948 in Oklahoma a tornado |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $600: It's officially called dense when it reduces visibility to 1/8 mile fog |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $800: This post-shower delight is always in the opposite side of the sky from the sun a rainbow |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | TOUGH SCIENCE $2000: Most weather occurs in this lowest level of the atmosphere, which extends to an altitude of 6 to 10 miles the troposphere |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $200: To welcome, or to order a cab hail |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $400: Usual noun for what appears on a TV with bad reception snow |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $600: Trumpets, trombones & flutes are grouped as this type of instrument winds |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $800: If you're "on" one, you're in high spirits; if you're "under" one, you're in disgrace a cloud |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $1000: If you "steal someone's" this, you've ruined the effect of a remark by anticipating it thunder |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL $1600: Controllers tell pilots of changes in the weather, like this condition of an abrupt shift in the wind shear |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $1600: Over 5 feet tall, Pachydyptes ponderosus was a prehistoric one of these cold-weather birds a penguin |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | LET'S GO CAMPING! $800: The mummy variety of this camping equipment is perfect for cold weather sleeping bag |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | MEASURING UP $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports with a hygrometer.) Calculated from the difference between the wet & dry thermometers, a hygrometer measures this two-word weather term relative humidity |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW $400: The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours a blizzard |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | STRUCTURES $200: Once essential in hot, dry forest weather, this type of structure is less necessary in an age of aircraft & cell phones a fire tower |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | OLD "HAT" $1200: North Carolina area seen here during some of the weather it's known for Cape Hatteras |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $400: In 1983 Vostok Station on this continent had the lowest temp. ever recorded on Earth, -128.6 degrees F. Antarctica |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $800: The National Weather Service says some Gulf Coast areas get a second peak tornado period, in this season autumn |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $1200: Barometric pressure is measured in these units abbreviated mb millibars |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $1600: Lightning results from movement of charged particles, usually within this 12-letter type of cloud also called a thundercloud a cumulonimbus |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $2000: The Earth’s rotation causes this “effect” in which winds gradually shift direction the Coriolis effect |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | IDIOMS $800: "Ballon d'essai" is the French equivalent of this, sent up to test people's reaction trial balloon |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? $200: It has seasonal weather patterns & iron-rich minerals in the soil, giving it a distinct red color Mars |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $200: Traditionally, a dense one of these is compared to "pea soup" fog |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $400: This 6-letter word for a tornado's shape is also a kitchen utensil a funnel |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $600: In the loose sense, it's any weather vane, but specifically it's one with a rooster on it a weathercock |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $800: (Jeff Probst reports from Palau.) Luckily, Palau is outside the zone of these storms, whose name comes from a Chinese word that means "great wind" typhoon |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $1000: The name of this job comes from the Greek for "discussion of celestial phenomena" (stay tuned) meteorologist |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $2000: As part of a voyage through the Northwest Passage, this Norwegian reached Nome in September 1906 Amundsen |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | KICKIN' AZTEC $200: The Great Aztec Temple was dedicated to the sun god & to Tlaloc, god of this weather condition rain |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | SNOW $400: In newspaper weather maps, the abbreviation "SF" stands for this condition snow flurries |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | B MINUS $200: Take the letter B off an organ of thought & you get this type of weather rain |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1792 Robert Thomas founded this almanac that contained useful weather info; the "Old" was added later The Farmers' Almanac |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $600: The personification of very cold wintry weather Jack Frost |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | MADE YA LOOK--UP! $800: Teardrop-shaped, it's used to carry a radiosonde aloft & may be mistaken for a UFO a weather balloon |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | PARTLY CLOUDY, CHANCE OF RAIN $800: .03" a year of rain falls on Arica in this South American country whose name sounds like a weather condition Chile |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | SILENT "G" $1200: Injurious to crops, it's a long period of dry weather with little rainfall a drought |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | WALK INTO A "BAR" $800: A line drawn on a weather map that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same an isobar |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | GOVERNMENT AT YOUR SERVICE $1000: Its headquarters are in Silver Spring, Md., but it has forecast offices across the U.S. the National Weather Service |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $200: The highest low temperature of any U.S. state is the 12 degrees F. recorded in this state on May 17, 1979 Hawaii |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $400: On a weather map, 3 horizontal & parallel lines indicate this weather condition fog |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $600: The Fujita scale that ranks the intensity of these goes from F-0 on up; an F-5 has wind speeds exceeding 261 mph a tornado |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $800: Sadly, in 2005 many learned this alliterative 2-word term for a rise in sea level accompanying fierce winds storm surge |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $1000: This type of weather radar calculates the speed & direction of a weather system Doppler |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES $400: In good weather, John Quincy Adams liked to spend his mornings skinny-dipping in this river the Potomac |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Its first edition contained "The Lunations, Eclipses" & "Judgment of the Weather" for the year 1733 Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2000: The weather on July 15, this saint's day, is said to fortell the weather for the next 40 days St. Swithun |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The greatest distance it's possible to see with the naked eye, it's often part of the weather forecast visibility |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | SCIENCE FACTS $200: The petals of the English daisy do this at night; the flowers of the scarlet pimpernel, when bad weather approaches fold up (or close) |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | POP CULTURE $400: Hallelujah! This "Late Night" bandleader co-wrote The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men" Paul Shaffer |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | METEOROLOGY $800: A current in the Indian Ocean bears the name of this rainy summer weather it helps bring a monsoon |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | METEOROLOGY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map with arrows pointing from the upper-right corner.) Diagrammed here, the direction from which the winds come give these rough weather phenomena their name nor'easters |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Covering 2% of the Earth's surface, they're disappearing at the rate of several acres a minute rainforests |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $400: They sound soothing to some wind chimes |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $600: Onesies are a standard gift at this type of event a baby shower |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $800: In 2001 a S.F. Chronicle writer defended Pres. Bush's vacation by pointing out that W. has this type of job high pressure |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: To have another city as one's birthplace or residence to hail (from) |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | HELOISE YES! $600: Repotting this warm-weather plant "can be a sticky situation unless you have... carpet scraps to handle" it a cactus |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $1000: Home to the Univ. of Okla. Sooners & the Nat'l Severe Storms Lab., it is the severe weather research capital Norman |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | YOU COULD HURT SOMEONE $600: A cord used on laundry day in sunny weather a clothesline |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | TEEN PEOPLE $400: Extreme weather in a 2004 blockbuster film didn't damage his looks Jake Gyllenhaal |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | SCIENCE $1,800 (Daily Double): An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this sunshine |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | FILM CRITICISM $600: John Simon, part deux: "O dull new world", this 1977 sci-fi blockbuster "is all as exciting as last year's weather reports" Star Wars |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $200: When it's muggy, "it's not the heat, it's" this, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere humidity |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: Each second about 100 of these natural electrical discharges occur somewhere on Earth lightning strikes |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $600: A "little" one of these "ages" ran between the 14th and 19th Centuries ice age |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: In terms of rainfall, it's the driest continent after Antarctica Australia |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1000: When the folks at the National Weather Service are feeling a bit "DZ," "DZ" stands for this weather condition drizzle |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT... $600: On June 28, 1994 the nat'l weather service began issuing this index that rates the intensity of the sun's radiation the UV index |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $800: The science of climate & weather meteorology |
| #4669, aired 2004-12-16 | PIANISTS $800: He co-wrote the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'" & performed it in the film "Stormy Weather" Fats Waller |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | OUR TROUBLED PLANET $400: By examining these in some trees, you can figure out what the weather was like thousands of years ago the rings |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: The UN's WHO, World Health Org., deals with medicine; its WMO, short for this, deals with weather World Meteorological Organization |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $800: This song complains, "Since my gal and I ain't together keeps raining all the time" "Stormy Weather" |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | DANGEROUS! $600: The "El Nino" phenomenon of this ocean causes unusual weather patterns about every 3 to 7 years the Pacific |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | "HAT" CHECK $600: Eastern North Carolina cape renowned for treacherous weather Hatteras |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) I'm in this city that FedEx bases its headquarters due to its location & good weather Memphis |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BE AFRAID...BE VERY AFRAID $400: In "Let It Snow", "The weather outside is" this frightful |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER $400: In France this weather event killed 5,000 & the director-general of health quit a heat wave |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | "D" DAY $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia) Weather forecasting radar uses this effect because radio waves change frequency like sound waves the Doppler effect |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | 11/30 $400: In the West Indies, this weather season runs from June 1 to November 30 hurricane season |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | SEEING THE FUTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1886 a newspaper dubbed this Pennsylvania resident the "Seer of Seers" & "Weather Prophet Extraordinary" Punxsutawney Phil |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | W.W. $400: In 1900 he wrote the U.S. Weather Bureau for a list of windy areas; he chose Kitty Hawk, where winds averaged 13 mph Wilbur Wright |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 21st CENTURY ROCK $800: Sheryl Crow sang, "I got no one who will bring me a big umbrella, so I'm watching" this cable TV network the Weather Channel |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | SCOTT $2000: The title of Susan Solomon's book about the last trip, "The Coldest" this, refers to the weather on Scott's trek back March |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | SCIENCE PUNS $600: When you are "under" this, a manometer will measure it pressure |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $1000: This weather forecaster can help save you a lot of trouble a barometer |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | THE 1900s $400: Causing $1 billion in damage, this weather phenomenon named Fran hit the southeastern U.S. in 1996 a hurricane |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | PILOT TALK $800: It's not frosting on the cake, it's a bad wing condition you experience in cold weather icing |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1988:
"Wet Weather Dude" Rain Man |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | WEATHER WORLD $200: Libya's arid climate is made worse by the ghibli, a crop-destroying wind from this desert Sahara |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | WEATHER WORLD $400: In addition to helping commerce, these ocean winds bring pleasant weather to islands like Hawaii trade winds |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | WEATHER WORLD $600: In Venezuela, this "season" is from April to October; in the mountains of Peru, from November to March rainy season |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | WEATHER WORLD $800: It's the U.S. state that experiences the most tornadoes Texas |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | WEATHER WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The Australian mountains that include the Charlotte's Pass ski area, or the weather there in July Snowy |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In this Belgian surrealist's 1928 work "Threatening Weather", the clouds have the shapes of a tuba, a chair & a torso Rene Magritte |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | SURVIVORS $800: In 1992 two of these weather phenomena named Iniki & Andrew left survivors cleaning up from Hawaii to Florida hurricanes |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | THE QUESTION IS... $600: It's the meteorological question that really tall people get really tired of hearing How's the weather up there? |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | ARE "WE" THERE YET? $600: If you're "under" this, you're not feeling well, or maybe getting rained on weather |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | YULETIDE DITTIES $600: Weather condition on the Christmas Eve that Santa asked Rudolph to "guide my sleigh tonight" foggy |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "L.B."s $400: And now the weather forecast: tonight expect these gentle winds of 4 to 7 miles per hour light breezes |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | LUNAR TUNES $600: This No. 2 hit by CCR warns, "Looks like we're in for nasty weather" "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $800: Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years El Nino |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $400: The largest of these in the U.S. fell on Coffeyville, Kansas; it measured 17 1/2 inches in circumference a hailstone |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $800: On July 10, 1913 it reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit at this California site; still the North American record Death Valley |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $1200: On May 3, 1999 the wind in one of these near Oklahoma City reached 318 mph, the fastest wind ever recorded a tornado |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $1600: On March 15-16, 1952 it rained a record 72 inches in 24 hours on the French island of Reunion in this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | WEATHER SUPERLATIVES $2000: Arica, Chile in this desert may be the driest place on Earth; it had an annual rainfall of only .03'' during a 59-year period the Atacama |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | PRESIDENTIAL APBs $400: Seen here, this 19th century man is wanted for making a 8,500-word inaugural speech in freezing weather William Henry Harrison |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $1000: It's a 6-letter term for a heated enclosure for growing plants in cold weather; you also might have one "of crime" a hotbed |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | WELCOME BACK, CARTER $1000: Jazz vocalist heard here
"Don't know why /
There's no sun up in the sky /
Stormy weather..." Betty Carter |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A GIRL! $400: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather & ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore The Wizard of Oz |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $600: In 1994 the Laughlin Weather Station in this state reported a temperature of 125 degrees Nevada |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $400: Americans grouse about cold winds from Canada; Bulgarians, about cold winds from this even larger country Russia |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $800: Due to wind and currect patterns these, like the Namib & Sonoran, are often found on the west coast of a continent the deserts |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $1200: Ocean waters give this state Australia's most moderate climate Tasmania |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $2,000 (Daily Double): A 2-word weather event in a European capital, or a brand of raincoat London Fog |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | WORLD OF WEATHER $2000: Ah, Contessa! Is it your look that inflames me? The purfumes of your Italian villa? Or this hot, moist wind from Africa? a Sirocco |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TV THEME SONGS $200: In rough weather, this "tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew", it "would be lost" the Minnow |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | CLASSIC COMEDY $1000: King Juan Carlos misdialed; instead of calling his psychic he got the weather & it said he'd do this today reign in Spain |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | REFERENCE WORKS $400: It's what an almanac often predicts, or what al-manakh means in Arabic weather |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | OH, "I" GET IT $400: Two-word name
for the popular method
of cold-weather transport
seen here ice skating (ice skates) |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | SCIENCE $300: On a weather map isotherms join places of equal temperature & these lines join places of equal air pressure isobars |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | "PI" $400: In 2001 bad weather helped cause one of these of over 100 vehicles on I-95 in Virginia Pile-up |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $200: Lines attributed to Twain include "Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it" the weather |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | KNOCK, KNOCK $400: This 1977 film was "as exciting as last year's weather reports"; guess the Force wasn't with that critic Star Wars |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | THEY PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN! $200: Hopefully you didn't get this music while on hold with the National Weather Service "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | AWARDS $400: The M in AMS, which gives awards for predicting the weather, stands for this 14-letter word Meteorological |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | HODGEPODGE $100: Superstition says don't point at this colorful arch or you may see even wetter weather a rainbow |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $800: A 1999 film explores the effect this weather phenomenon had on "The Island of the Sharks" El Nino |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $200: Expect cloudy days when a cold one of these catches a warm one & forms an occluded one Front |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $400: This type of air from above 66 degrees north latitude will send the mercury falling Arctic air |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $600: Don't worry about Ulka yet -- she's not a hurricane, just one of these "storms" with winds over 38 MPH Tropical storm |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $800: Brace yourself for storms -- we're in one of these elongated low-pressure areas, like a hungry pig Trough |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $1000: Poor air quality will result from this layer in which the atmosphere warms as you go higher Inversion layer |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | YULETIDE FAVORITES $400: Weather condition on Christmas Eve when Santa asked Rudolph, "Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Foggy |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | YE GODS! $600: As god of this for the Inuits, Igaluk controlled the seasons & the tides the Moon |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $200: Salute, or call out to get a cabbie's attention hail |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $400: To fall in great quantities, like confetti in a parade rain |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $600: To overwhelm with flattery or insincere talk snow |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $800: Frost a cake, or clinch a victory ice |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $1000: To face, as property does on a lake front |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | BOATING WITH NOAH $200: This weather phenomenon was a sign to Noah from God that he would never flood the Earth again Rainbow |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | "STRIP"s $400: It's the piece of metal or rubber between the door & the frame to keep the wind & rain out a weather strip |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Weather forecasting in Seattle is easy: either this mountain is "out" & it's clear or it isn't Mount Rainier |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | MEASURED IN INCHES $300: A mercury type of this weather instrument is reliable to within 0.03 inches barometer |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | GIRL SCOUTING $300: A girl studies this science to earn the badge seen here: weather (or meteorology) |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | OH, MY ACHING BACK! $400: Consarned damp weather aggravates this condition whose name tells you it affects the lumbar region lumbago |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | GETTING JAZZED $1000: In the '70s Weather Report had "nuclear" results with this style that combined jazz & rock fusion |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $400: The Pecos Pueblo in this state is in a sorry state from weather erosion New Mexico |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $400: Of dog days, halcyon days or salad days, the one that's the most weather-related Dog days |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | I GOT A CALDECOTT! $1000: 1948's & '49's books had this weather condition in their titles; Roger Duvoisin's was "White" & "Bright"; the Haders', "Big" Snow |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | SONG & DANCE MEN $100: After "Singin' in the Rain", he found sun in his next directorial effort, "It's Always Fair Weather" Gene Kelly |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | EARTH SCIENCE $1000: Almost all weather takes place in this lowest part of the atmosphere Troposphere |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | -OLOGIES $100: Though it sounds like it deals with space matter, it's the study of weather Meteorology |
| #3548, aired 2000-01-26 | FEASTS & FESTIVALS $200: The Virgin Islands celebrate Thanksgiving in October to give thanks to the end of this weather season Hurricane season |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | SLOGANEERING $300: On cable TV, it boasts that "No Place on Earth has Better Weather" The Weather Channel |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | HAVE A (COUNTY) SEAT $1,000 (Daily Double): This seat of Chaves County, New Mexico is known for the 1947 crash of a weather balloon -- or something Roswell |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | CASABLANCA $600: Like Toronto's Skydome, Casablanca's Hassan II Mosque has this feature for variable weather Retractable roof |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | WEATHER CHANNEL $200: On a weather map a line with little triangles is this type of front a cold front |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | GENERAL SCIENCE $100: In weather forecasting, the UV index refers to the intensity of this type of radiation Ultraviolet |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | I DO KNOW JACK $100: The personification of freezing weather, he might nip at your nose Jack Frost |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | FAMOUS NAVAL CONFLICTS $800: In autumn 1588 this "invincible" fleet of Philip II hobbled home, having lost 63 ships to battle & weather the Spanish Armada |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | IT'S A "SMALL" WORLD $500: The National Weather Service issues sailors these "advisories" when winds are between 18 & 33 knots small craft advisories (or small craft warnings) |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | A CAST OF THOUSANDS $300: From Middle English for "to contrive", it's a guess at what the weather will be tomorrow Forecast |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: The groundhog displays his weather-predicting skills each year on this date February 2 |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | WEATHER TERMS $200: In "Paint Your Wagon" it's called "Maria" wind |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | WEATHER TERMS $400: It's the "culinary" term for the thick weather condition indicated by the following
(sound of a foghorn) pea soup |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | THE BRITISH INVASION $500: With "Telstar", this band named for a weather phenomenon was the first British group to top the U.S. charts The Tornados |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | WEATHER TERMS $600: Peter Hoeg's Smilla Jaspersen had a "sense of" this snow |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | WEATHER TERMS $800: Director Michael Mann took his name off this 1995 DeNiro-Pacino film in protest of NBC's editing of it Heat |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | WEATHER TERMS $1000: Richard Pryor's daughter, she's been seen on Showtime's "Rude Awakening" Rain Pryor |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | LITERARY WEATHER $100: James Whitcomb Riley wrote of the time when this "is on the punkin", & he didn't mean a fellow poet Frost |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | LITERARY WEATHER $200: It must be hard to sleep late in Kipling's "Mandalay", where "The dawn comes up like" this Thunder |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | LITERARY WEATHER $300: The Pacific Northwest is the setting for David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these Cedars |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | LITERARY WEATHER $400: (Here's Al Roker with the clue.) This type of low-pressure area provides the title for chapter 1 of "The Wizard of Oz" Cyclone |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $800: This book by Sebastian Junger details the loss of a fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, to bad weather The Perfect Storm |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $400: In this weather phrase, felines represent precipitation & canines symbolize wind & storm Raining cats & dogs |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MUSICAL WEATHER $100: "The weather outside is frightful" & "we've no place to go" so allow this to happen "Let It Snow" |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MUSICAL WEATHER $200: The title of a Clash song says this happens "not once, but twice" "Lightning Strikes" |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MUSICAL WEATHER $300: A Gershwin song says one of these "in London town had me low and had me down" a foggy day |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MUSICAL WEATHER $400: In this song, "The rain is gone" & "It's gonna be a bright... sunshiny day" "I Can See Clearly Now" |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MUSICAL WEATHER $500: Rainy songs from this band include "Box Of Rain" & "Cold Rain And Snow" The Grateful Dead |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $200: In "Bleak House", Chapter 3, Dickens calls this weather condition "A London particular" fog |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | MOTHER EARTH $100: La Nina is the name given to the weather pattern that produces many effects opposite to this one El Nino |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | STORMY WEATHER $100: With a funnel more than a mile wide, one of the largest of these occured March 18, 1925 & killed 695 people tornado |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | STORMY WEATHER $200: It's a snowstorm with winds past 30 knots, below normal temperatures & visibility reduced to 1/8 of a mile blizzard |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | STORMY WEATHER $300: Body part associated with the center of the image seen here (hurricane) eye |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | STORMY WEATHER $400: Produced by thunderstorm clouds, these lumps of ice bigger than 5mm are classified as hydrometeors hailstones |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | STORMY WEATHER $500: This "great" area on Jupiter is a violent storm first discovered in 1664 the Great Red Spot |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $100: 16 degrees Celsius is roughly 61 degrees on this scale Fahrenheit |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $200: The name of this storm with winds over 74 mph comes from the West Indies Taino word for "evil spirit" a hurricane |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $300: It's the 7-letter term for the common cloud type seen here cumulus |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $400: A boundary between 2 dissimilar air masses, it may be cold, warm or stationary Front |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $500: Weather records are preserved in these, such as Mendenhall; a drill can pull out 160,000 years of data Glaciers |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | NAME THAT ARTHROPOD $100: Few of these ever reach maturity, they're destroyed by weather or eaten by other animals Caterpillars |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | THE "EL" YOU SAY $300: The orangutans on Borneo are in peril due to drought & fires blamed on this weather phenomenon "El Nino" |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | IT'S A BREEZE $300: Kona winds from the southwest can bring bad weather to this state Hawaii |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | HOW'S THE WEATHER UP THERE? $200: Affecting the weather in the U.S., this Pacific Ocean current's name is Spanish for "the child" El Niño |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | HOW'S THE WEATHER UP THERE? $400: Of a basketball, a volleyball or a softball, the one closest in size to the USA's largest hailstone softball |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | HOW'S THE WEATHER UP THERE? $600: The National Weather Service issues tornado watches during storms & these when a tornado is spotted tornado warnings |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | HOW'S THE WEATHER UP THERE? $1,000 (Daily Double): It lags behind a stroke of lightning at a rate of about 5 seconds per mile thunder |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | GET A GRIP $300: The part of a tire that gives it the power to grip a road in wet weather Tread |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | "ICK"Y WORDS $500: "Heat" suffered by infants in warm weather, causing a rash prickly heat |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Below par, off one's feed, under the weather, in short -- this Ill |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT... $400: In 1849 Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian received the first weather report via this new invention the telegraph |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | GARDENING $200: Tender perennials are so-called because they are killed by this, a sign the weather's getting chilly frost |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | GREAT-GRANDPAPPY SAID $300: Wherever he was he'd say, "Don't waste time complaining about" this, "It will soon change" the Weather |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | THE BEASTS $200: For small bats to hibernate, this weather condition has to be above 90% or their wings will dry out Humidity |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | HOME IMPROVEMENT $400: To prevent drafts around a door frame, install this; spring metal & rolled felt are popular types weather stripping |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | FAMOUS MOUNTS $2,000 (Daily Double): George Vancouver named this NW peak after a British rear admiral, not for the local weather Mount Rainier |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WEATHER $100: In 1995, 11 tropical storms in the Atlantic strengthened to these, the most in one year since 1969 Hurricanes |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WEATHER $200: In the winter of 1997, the Great Lakes' lake effect dumped over 90" of this on Montague, New York Snow |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WEATHER $300: As seen in Los Angeles, a thermal inversion of warm air covering cool air can cause a buildup of this Smog/pollution |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WEATHER $400: This phenomenon begins with an invisible electric discharge called a stepped leader Lightning |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WEATHER $500: In early 1997 floodwaters trapped 2,200 visitors in this California national park Yosemite |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ANCIENT RELIGION $1000: Elijah defeated 450 prophets of this Canaanite weather god Baal |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: America's first weather satellite, its name stood for Television & Infrared Observation Satellite TIROS |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | SCIENCE & NATURE $100: The ball form of this weather phenomenon is also known as kugelblitz lightning |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | SCIENCE $300: On a weather chart this line connects places that have the same barometric pressure Isobar |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: Bears, badgers & this mammal have been known to predict the weather on Candlemas, February 2 groundhog |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | SUPERSTITION $300: A ring around the moon means this weather condition will soon occur snow (or rain or any kind of precipitation) |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | SPECIAL DAYS $300: The Virgin Islands' Thanksgiving, usually in Oct., celebrates the end of this disastrous weather season Hurricane season |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | SONGS $400: 2 words following "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky..." stormy weather |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: Legend says this doomed spectral ship, an omen of ill luck, can be seen off the Cape of Good Hope in stormy weather The Flying Dutchman |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | SHIPS $200: Due to stormy weather, this ship arrived at Cape Cod instead of Virginia November 21, 1620 the Mayflower |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Italian weather terms include la pioggia -- rain -- & il vento -- this Wind |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | MYTHOLOGY $400: As the god of this type of weather, Jupiter had the epithet Pluvius rain |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | WEATHER $200: The largest of these in the U.S., 17 1/2" around & 1 2/3 lbs., fell on Coffeyville, Kansas Sept. 3, 1970 hailstone |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | WEATHER $400: The aneroid type of this weather instrument is often used as an altimeter barometer |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | WEATHER $600: Nearly all weather occurs in this lowest region of the Earth's atmosphere troposphere |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | WEATHER $800: The Earth has 3 types of prevailing winds: prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies & this type trade winds |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | WEATHER $1000: In terms of damage, this 1992 hurricane that hit Florida & Louisiana was the USA's costliest Andrew |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | TV NEWS NAMES $400: She began as a "weather girl" in her native Kentucky, now she's in her prime on "Prime Time Live" Diane Sawyer |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $500: This bird flies higher in fine weather, so saying it "honks high" or "hangs high" means all's well a goose |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | WEATHER $100: This storm's name is derived from Spanish tronada, meaning "thunderstorm" tornado |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | WEATHER $200: Atmospheric pressure reaches its lowest point in this less cloudy central region of a hurricane the eye |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | WEATHER $300: The most severe of these dry spells in the 20th century affected Africa's Sahel region a drought |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | WEATHER $400: The aneroid type of this instrument measures the effect of air pressure on a metal chamber a barometer |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | WEATHER $500: A buran is the Russian equivalent of this North American storm characterized by blowing snow a blizzard |
| #2695, aired 1996-04-26 | TRANSPORTATION $200: In the early 1900s, the U.S. Weather Bureau flew the box type of these to lift weather instruments kite |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "T" $1000: The Roman god Jupiter used this weather phenomenon as a weapon, by jove Thunderbolt |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | SONG STANDARDS $100: It's the title that follows "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky" "Stormy Weather" |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | CARTOGRAPHY $400: Type of map on which you'd find lines called isobars weather map |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | ROMANTIC GETAWAYS $1000: Columbus' "fair weather gulf", this romantic bay is the home of the Bob Marley Performing Centre Montego Bay |
| #2627, aired 1996-01-23 | 17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $400: In mid-century Otto Von Guericke was the first to use this device to predict the weather Barometer |
| #2609, aired 1995-12-28 | THE 1960s $200: In 1960 the 1st communications satellite, Echo 1, & the 1st of these satellites, Tiros 1, were launched a weather satellite |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WEATHER $100: A lot of this blowing around creates a "whiteout" snow |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WEATHER $200: If you experience a wind known as a sirocco, you're in this desert Sahara |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WEATHER $300: Air pressure is usually measured in millibars or in inches of this metal mercury |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WEATHER $500: When this, the border of an air mass, passes over a fixed location, there's a sudden change in the weather front |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): Its life cycle usually has 5 stages: dust-whirl, organizing, mature, shrinking & decaying tornado |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | APOSTLES $1000: Jesus called the brothers James & John "Boanerges", "sons of" this weather word thunder |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | WEATHER $200: Warnings of tropical storms come from the National Hurricane Center in this Florida city Miami |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | WEATHER $400: The name of these highest clouds comes from the Latin for "curl" or "tuft" cirrus |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | WEATHER $600: On March 15-16, 1952 it rained a record 73.62" in 24 hours on the island of Reunion in this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | WEATHER $800: Early sailing ships were often stranded for many weeks in this region of calm winds on the Equator the doldrums |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | WEATHER $1000: The June 1991 eruption of this Philippine volcano caused vivid sunsets Mount Pinatubo |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | D-DAY $400: The invasion was originally planned for this date; bad weather forced a one-day delay June 5th |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | RAIN POTPOURRI $200: Something that will happen regardless of the weather will take place "rain or" this shine |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | FASHION $100: Popular in warm weather, baby dolls are a style of this for women pajamas |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: This inventor of a temperature scale spent most of his life in Amsterdam making weather instruments Fahrenheit |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | MONTHS $400: Helen Hunt Jackson described this month as having "summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer" September |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | GENERAL SCIENCE $400: Soft & sticky in warm weather & brittle in cold weather, add sulfur & heat it to vulcanize it rubber |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Weather request couplet that precedes "Little Johnny wants to play" Rain, rain, go away/Come again another day (Rain, rain, go away/Come again some other day accepted) |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | PHOBIAS $100: A homichlophobic doesn't fear pea soup but rather the pea soup type of this weather phenomenon fog |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WEATHER $200: The lowest recorded temperature in the U.S. was -79.8 degrees F. on Jan. 23, 1971, in this state Alaska |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WEATHER $400: It's a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air humidity |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WEATHER $600: One type of this instrument measures wind speed by using sound signals anemometer |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WEATHER $800: Averaging 25,000 feet & above, it's the highest standard cloud form cirrus |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WEATHER $5,000 (Daily Double): This calm area near the equator is the meeting place for the northeast & southeast trade winds the Doldrums |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): Show that features the following: "I got the horse right here / The name is Paul Revere / And here's a guy that says if the weather's clear /Can do /Can do / This guy says the horse can do..." Guys and Dolls |
| #2289, aired 1994-07-14 | 5-LETTER WORDS $300: The name of this cold-weather jacket with a hood comes from an Alaskan Russian word for "pelt" a parka |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | WEATHER $200: In 1960 Tiros I became the first one of these a weather satellites |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | WEATHER $400: In one type of hygrometer, the length of a hair increases with an increase in this humidity |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | WEATHER $600: Nearly all weather occurs in this lowest layer of the atmosphere the troposphere |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | WEATHER $800: In 1940 FDR transferred the Weather Bureau to this cabinet department the Department of Commerce |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | WEATHER $1000: This English astronomer devised the first weather map in 1686 Edmond Halley |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: First published in 1733, it "contained the lunations, eclipses, judgment of the weather..." Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | WEATHER $100: They're classified by their shape & elevation clouds |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | WEATHER $200: In the northeastern part of Honduras, this "season" lasts for most of the year rainy |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | WEATHER $300: The National Weather Service prepares 2 main kinds of these: short-range & extended forecasts |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | WEATHER $400: These most violent of all storms can form in thunderstorms located inside hurricanes tornadoes |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | WEATHER $500: In terms of the 2 types of pressure areas, wind moves in this direction high pressure area to the low pressure area |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | COMMUNICATIONS $400: CNN's Gulf War coverage won a Cable Ace Award & this channel won a Golden Ace for its coverage of Hurricane Hugo the Weather Channel |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $700 (Daily Double): In Italy this weather phenomenon is il lampo Lightning |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: These lines on a weather map connect points having the same temperature isotherms |
| #2127, aired 1993-11-30 | ESPERANTO $600: Pluvemantello is this item of foul-weather apparel Raincoat |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $200: A high of 120 degrees or more has been recorded on every continent but this one; it's barely broken 60 Antarctica |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $400: Twister is an informal term for this type of windstorm Tornado |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $600: Planes flying east use this high-velocity wind to gain speed & save fuel Jet Stream |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $800: To produce rain, clouds are often seeded with crystals of this compound, formula Agl Silver iodide |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $1000: The numbers on this standard wind scale originally referred to a wind's effect on a ship's sails Beaufort Scale |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | ART $400: El Greco's "View of" this Spanish city shows it in stormy weather Toledo |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $100: Most of these don't travel more than 20 miles, though in 1917 one went 293 miles across Illinois & Indiana tornadoes |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $200: In 1991 this state capital had a high of 93°, a low of 55° & 17.94" of rain Honolulu (Hawaii) |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $300: This effect is seen around the Sun & Moon when they're behind transparent cirriform clouds a halo |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $400: When this reading is 50%, it makes 95° feel like 107° humidity |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $500: Associated with southern Asia, these seasonal winds also occur in North America a monsoon |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | SUPERSTITIONS $800: Some say this pair of weather phenomena is the voice & wrath of God thunder & lightning |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | WEATHER $100: This usually forms at night when water droplets condense on cool surfaces dew |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | WEATHER $200: The highest temperature ever recorded on this continent was 59° F. Antarctica |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | WEATHER $300: The word meteorology traces its origin to a 4th cent. B.C. work by this student of Plato Aristotle |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | WEATHER $400: This type of light rain appears to float on air currents while falling mist (drizzle) |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | WEATHER $900 (Daily Double): This type of storm is sometimes called a black blizzard a dust storm |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | GENERAL SCIENCE $500: Nearly all of the Earth's weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere below the stratosphere the troposphere |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | WEATHER $100: "Rainbow at night, sailor's delight; rainbow in the morning, sailors" do this take warning |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | WEATHER $200: This is defined as the interface of 2 air masses of different temperatures or densities a front |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | WEATHER $300: Triangular flags on a weather map show the direction of this the wind |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | WEATHER $400: The name of this curly white cloud comes from a Latin prefix meaning "curl" cirrus |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | WEATHER $500: This fishing ground off Newfoundland is the world's foggiest place the Grand Banks |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | WEATHER $200: This Sunshine State ranks first in deaths caused by lightning strikes Florida |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | WEATHER $400: On the average, the highly destructive path of one of these storms is less than 16 miles long a tornado |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | WEATHER $600: This is the narrow band of strong winds at the level of the tropopause the jet stream |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | WEATHER $800: While a storm watch says a storm could be forming, one of these says its arrival is imminent a storm warning |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | WEATHER $1000: In 1900 a hurricane that struck this Texas island city killed over 6,000 Galveston |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $100: "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was" this dry |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | SWITZERLAND $1,400 (Daily Double): Two of these that predominate during the year and affect the country are the Bise & the Foehn winds |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $100: A safety tip says if your hair stands on end, hit the ground; this may be about to strike lightning |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $200: This first Atlantic tropical storm of the 1992 season hit Florida August 24, causing billions in damage Andrew |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $300: Each day in the U.S., about 200 of these are launched carrying radiosondes (weather) balloons |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $400: Composed of 3 oxygen atoms, this gas is created in thunderstorms ozone |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | WEATHER $500: It's the term for winds, like the trades, that follow a regular pattern prevailing winds |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | WEATHER $200: The largest one of these in the U.S. was 17 1/2" in circumference & fell near Coffeeville, Kansas, in 1970 hailstone |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | WEATHER $400: Air pressure is measured by a vacuum chamber, not mercury, in the aneroid type of this instrument barometer |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | WEATHER $600: In 1964 photographs of hurricane Cleo were taken by Nimbus I, a new generation of this weather satellite |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | WEATHER $800: Light winds occur in these "latitudes" between the prevailing westerlies & the trade winds horse latitudes |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | WEATHER $1000: Used to measure wind speed, it usually has 3 or 4 cups which rotate on a spindle anemometer |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: On this holiday, Punxsutawney Phil, king of the weather prophets, shines even if the sun doesn't Groundhog Day |
| #1860, aired 1992-10-09 | LYRICS $200: It's the title line that follows, "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky" Stormy weather |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | APRIL FOOLS' DAY $100: The United States sent up Tiros I, the 1st satellite of this kind, April 1, 1960 weather satellite |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | STARTS WITH "S" $300: Weather condition found in the name of a goose & a leopard snow |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | GENERAL SCIENCE $200: It's the study of the atmosphere as well as the study of the weather meteorology |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | WEATHER $100: The primary one of these is caused by 2 refractions & 1 reflection of light by each raindrop a rainbow |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | WEATHER $200: It's a glass tube in which a column of mercury changes height with changes in temperature a thermometer |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | WEATHER $300: "Absolute" this is the term for the amount of moisture in the air humidity |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | WEATHER $400: On the Earth, Cu is copper; in the sky, Cu is this type of cloud cumulus |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | WEATHER $500: More common name for the tropical easterlies the trade winds |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $600: Successful types of these satellites have included the European Meteosat & the American Nimbus weather satellites |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | HODGEPODGE $500: On USA Today's weather page, "sn" stands for this condition snow |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | 7-LETTER WORDS $300: It can precede bureau, stripping or vane weather |
| #1657, aired 1991-11-12 | 18TH CENTURY QUOTES $200: "After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy", he said in his almanac Poor Richard |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 1956 $100: 1 newspaper announced her pregnancy with: "Monaco weather forecast: A little Rainier in February" Princess Grace |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $200: The coldest spot in Europe & the coldest spot in Asia are in this country Russia (Soviet Union) |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $400: Seen at small airports, this simple instrument is a fabric tube narrower at one end, tied to a pole a windsock |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $600: Though it's as far north as Labrador, Britain enjoys milder weather due to the influence of this current the Gulf Stream |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $800: Anticyclone & cyclone areas are more commonly labeled as these on weather maps highs & lows |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | WEATHER $1000: G.E. scientist Bernard Vonnegut found this compound could be used to "seed" clouds silver iodide crystals |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $500: Inventing this weather device in 1643, Torricelli also created the 1st vacuum known to science the barometer |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | MONTHS $1,500 (Daily Double): The 2 animals mentioned in the proverb about the weather in the month in which spring begins lion & lamb |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | WORLD LANDMARKS $200: The top of this Paris landmark houses a French weather bureau station the Eiffel Tower |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WEATHER $100: The National Center for these storms
is in Coral Gables, Florida hurricane |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WEATHER $200: From the Latin for cast down, it's any form of rain or snow precipitation |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WEATHER $300: In the Northern Hemisphere, eastbound aircraft fly with this to gain speed & save fuel the jet stream |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WEATHER $400: A weather vane points in this direction it points in the direction from which the wind is coming |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WEATHER $500: Air pressure is also called this from the instrument used to measure it barometric (pressure) |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | WEATHER $200: Heavy rains can trigger these sudden & severe deluges, especially in the Southwest flash floods |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | WEATHER $400: It's the point at which cooling vapor condenses into water droplets the dew point |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | WEATHER $600: The frozen subsoil of the polar regions, which never thaws, has come to be called this the permafrost |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | WEATHER $800: Because mercury freezes at about -38° Fahrenheit, weather stations in cold climates use this type of thermometer alcohol thermometers |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | WEATHER $1000: Heavy rain & sometimes hail is produced by this type of cloud, also called a thunderhead cumulonimbus |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | WEATHER $100: It completes Charles Dudley Warner's words, "Everybody talks about the weather..." "but nobody does anything about it" |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | WEATHER $200: From "mausim", season, it's the wind system around the Indian Ocean that brings weather changes monsoon |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | WEATHER $300: A tubular ribbon of high-speed winds 20,000 to 40,000 feet up the jet stream |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | WEATHER $400: The Grand Banks & London are said to have typical varieties of this weather phenomenon fog |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | WEATHER $500: Latin for "curl of hair", these wispy clouds can be blown into strands called mare's tails cirrus |
| #1490, aired 1991-02-08 | FASHION $400: In a 1958 hit, The Royal Teens asked, "Who wears" this scanty warm weather wear short shorts |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | WEATHER $100: The record wind speed for one of these, 280 mph, was measured over Wichita Falls, Texas in 1925 tornado |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | WEATHER $200: In 1979 the names of hurricanes were changed to include these men |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | WEATHER $300: The rainiest place in the U.S. is in this state Hawaii |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | WEATHER $400: Indra, chief Vedic god of India, killed Vrtra, a dragon who held back these seasonal winds monsoon |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | WEATHER $500: An electrical discharge appearing as a blue or green halo is called this St. Elmo's fire |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | THEATER $400: Weather condition in the title of John Colton & Clemence Randolph's play about Sadie Thompson rain |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | WEATHER $100: You're in them where the trade winds meet near the equator, even if you're not down in the dumps the doldrums |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | WEATHER $200: He was the first to propose a thermometer based on the centigrade scale Anders Celsius |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | WEATHER $300: A Fata Morgana is one of these, often in the form of castles & usually over water a mirage |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | WEATHER $400: From a Cantonese word, it's a severe tropical hurricane, especially one in the China Sea a typhoon |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | WEATHER $500 (Daily Double): The Greeks saw this as the sign of Iris, messenger of the gods a rainbow |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | SUPERSTITIONS $400: A ring around the moon is supposed to mean this type of weather is coming rain |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $200: The odd word in this Bronte title is Old Yorkshire dialect meaning "stormy weather" Wuthering Heights |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | DEFINITIONS $800: A line on a weather map connecting areas of equal pressure, its first letter is a line too an isobar |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WEATHER $100: An anemometer is an instrument used to measure the speed of this wind |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WEATHER $200: The THI, it tells you exactly how miserable you are on a hot summer day the temperature-humidity index |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WEATHER $300: Word used to describe rain, snow or fog with a pH value of less than 5.6 acid rain |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WEATHER $400: The Rocky Mountain equivalent of the Alpine wind called a foehn the chinook |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WEATHER $500: The Humboldt Current is also called this, for the S. American country off the coast it's found Peru (current) |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | WEATHER $200: Air in motion at any speed, especially on a parallel with the earth, is called this wind |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | WEATHER $400: Transition zone between two air masses, it was named for its resemblance to the lead troops in battle a front |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | WEATHER $600: These rotating cone-like clouds aren't called tornadoes until they touch the ground funnel clouds |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | WEATHER $800 (Daily Double): Meteorological term for a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Western North Pacific Ocean a typhoon |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | WEATHER $1000: Halos that appear around the Moon are caused by the refraction of light against these in the air ice crystals |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $500: In 1611 Kepler published a paper on the 6-sided nature of these weather phenomena snowflakes |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | WEATHER $100: Though better known for his work with comets, he published the 1st weather map in 1686 (Edmond) Halley |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | WEATHER $200: These are the most violent windstorms tornadoes |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | WEATHER $300: Forms of this include forked, streak, ribbon & beaded lightning |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | WEATHER $400: Listless area near the equator where trade winds from the north & south meet the doldrums |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | WEATHER $500: A sudden gust of wind, a light snowfall, or a sudden burst of confusion a flurry |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | ODDS & ENDS $800: On May 5, 1960 the U.S. claimed it was a weather plane U2 |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $100: On weather maps isobars connect points of equal pressure & isotherms connect points equal in this temperature |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $200: The highest known barometer reading in the U.S., 31.85, was recorded in this state during a 1989 cold wave Alaska |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $300: During a storm this can occur in a cloud, between clouds or from a cloud to the ground lightning |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $400: The wind direction most commonly observed during a given period is called this the prevailing (prevalent) wind |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $500 (Daily Double): The 2 seasons when icebergs are most likely to be formed spring & summer |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | WEATHER $200: Weighing up to 2 1/4 pounds, the largest ones on record reportedly killed 92 people in Bangladesh in '86 hailstones |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | WEATHER $400: The American Midwest sees more of these storms than any other place in the world tornadoes |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | WEATHER $600: The terms El Niño and La Niña were coined to describe warm & cold water pools in this ocean Pacific |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | WEATHER $800: During daylight hours, a single red pennant warns boaters that these are in effect small craft warnings |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | WEATHER $1000: A thermograph records temerature & a hydrograph records this humidity |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | WEATHER $100: If you walk on grass in early morning, you might step on these tiny waterdrops condensed from the air Dew |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | WEATHER $200: A dry spell that continues long enough to affect agriculture or other activities Drought |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | WEATHER $300: The lake effect, most pronounced near the Great Lakes, causes this type of solid precipitation Snow |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | WEATHER $400: The prevailing winds that blow across most of the U.S. come from this direction West |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | WEATHER $500: Severe tropical storm having winds in excess of 74 MPH & an eye in the middle Hurricane |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | WEATHER $100: The Pleistocene epoch of extensive glaciation in Europe & America is also called this The Ice Age |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | WEATHER $200: A magnetic storm is a worldwide disturbance of Earth's magnetic field caused by disturbances there The Sun |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | WEATHER $400: "Seasonal" term that describes the cold & dark weather that nuclear war could bring Nuclear Winter |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | WEATHER $500 (Daily Double): The temperature & humidity conditions characteristic of Santa Ana, Foehn & Chinook winds Hot & Dry |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | WEATHER $500: The 2 most commonly used temperature scales, each named for its inventor Celsius & Fahrenheit |
| #1305, aired 1990-04-13 | U.S.A. $200: Despite the weather, this huge state has the highest percentage of commuters who walk to work Alaska |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | WEATHER $100: Airplanes can trigger bolts of this when traveling through electrified clouds lightning |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | WEATHER $200: Air is described as supersaturated when the relative humidity is higher than this percent 100% |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | WEATHER $300: Tornadoes that develop over water are called these waterspouts |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | WEATHER $400: Season of the year when Arizona has its "monsoons" Summer |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | WEATHER $500: An increase in air temperature at higher altitudes is unusual & is called this inversion |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | ODD JOBS $200: From the Greek for "know beforehand", it's someone who predicts things, like the weather prognosticator |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WEATHER $200: Called a "willy-willy" in Australia, it's name is from a West Indian word meaning "big wind" hurricanes |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | RODENTS $200: The best known of these weather forecasting rodents is Punxsutawney Phil a groundhog |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WEATHER $400: "Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning; red sky at night is" this (sailor's) delight |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WEATHER $600: To measure very low temperatures, this liquid, not mercury, is used in thermometers alcohol |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WEATHER $800: Squall lines, which are clusters of these, may stretch for hundreds of miles thunderstorms |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WEATHER $1000: 19th c. British commander who developed the scale of comparative wind forces named for him Sir Francis Beaufort |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | POT LUCK $400: Its weather was warmer when Eric the Red settled this country about 1000 A.D.; the cold came around 1200 Greenland |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WEATHER GEAR $100: To avoid the sun's glare at the beach, wear these tinted accessories sunglasses |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WEATHER GEAR $200: Protective device the French call un parapluie & the British call a brolly an umbrella |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WEATHER GEAR $300: A small cylinder of fur or cloth into which the hands are inserted for warmth Muff |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WEATHER GEAR $400: A raincoat, often yellow, named for its glossy appearance a slicker |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WEATHER GEAR $500: A soft Eskimo boot made of reindeer or seal skin a mukluk |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | TALK SHOW HOSTS $400: Before becoming talk show hosts, Pat Sajak & David Letterman did this on local newscasts weather |
| #1248, aired 1990-01-24 | LITERARY RELATIVES $400: The adventures of his grandfather "Foul-Weather Jack" inspired parts of "Don Juan" Lord Byron |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | 4-LETTER WORDS $300: Friends who are there for you only in the good times are said to be there in this weather fair weather |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | WEATHER $100: In July 1889 a city in Romania got over 8 inches of this in 20 minutes rain |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | WEATHER $200: The highest temperature recorded on this continent is 59° F Antarctica |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | WEATHER $300: In 1849, for the first time, a weather report was sent over this a telegraph |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | WEATHER $400: V. & J. Bjerknes were the 1st to call the transitional zone between hot & cold air masses this a front |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | WEATHER $500: The region between these strong winds is called the doldrums the trade winds |
| #1215, aired 1989-12-08 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $500: GOES, INSAT & METEOSAT are satellites used for this purpose Weather Forecasting |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WEATHER $100: For a storm to be called this, it must have winds greater than 32 MPH & heavy snow Blizzard |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WEATHER $200: Silver iodide or dry ice is used to do this to a cloud Seed It |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WEATHER $300: More tornadoes are recorded in the basin of this river than anywhere else in the world Mississippi River |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WEATHER $400: An old weather adage says "Red sky in the morning, sailors" do this "Take Warning" |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WEATHER $500: Also called a vapor trail, it's a cloud-like streamer that forms behind jets in clear, cold, humid air Contrail |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | SCIENCE $400: This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb Millibar |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | THE QUOTABLE FRANKLIN $500: Completes his maxim, "Some are weather-wise..." "some are other-wise" |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | WEATHER $100: The more familiar name for a "synoptic chart" weather chart (or weather map) |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | WEATHER $400: Trade winds blow from both the northeast & southeast toward this line the equator |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | WEATHER $500: Stratus clouds at ground level are called this fog |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | THE "I"'S HAVE IT $600: This period of unusually warm weather occurs in late autumn in the Central & Eastern U.S. Indian summer |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | SEXY SENIORS $500 (Daily Double): Former Cotton Club chorine heard here, singing her signature song:
"Life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere..." Lena Horne |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WEATHER $200: A recent study indicates 22-40% of lightning flashes occur without this being heard thunder |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WEATHER $400: A slippery mixture of falling rain & snow sleet |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WEATHER $600: This term for a tropical cyclone is the Far East equivalent of a "hurricane" a typhoon |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WEATHER $800: High wet winds from the tropics mixing with dry ground air help create these Arizona "black blizzards" sand storms (dust storms) |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WEATHER $2,500 (Daily Double): Reason that Atlantic hurricanes usually last longer than Pacific hurricanes warmer water in the Atlantic |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: In a fixed position, unmoving, like some weather fronts stationary |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | STARTS WITH "C" $1,000 (Daily Double): Referring to a person it means lenient or merciful; referring to weather it means mild clement |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEATHER $200: The National Hurricane Center is based in this Florida city Miami |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEATHER $400: In 1921 Silver Lake, Colorado saw 76 inches of this fall in a 24 hour period, a world record snow |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEATHER $600: This condition, a layer of warm air over a layer of cool, allows pollutants to build up over a city temperature inversion (or thermal inversion) |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEATHER $800: Nearly all weather occurs in this, the lowest layer of the atmosphere the troposphere |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEATHER $1000: The National Weather Service is part of this Cabinet department the Department of Commerce |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $300: "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry; the sun so hot I" did this froze to death |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | SEE THE USA $500: Signs warning hikers in these N.H. Mts. say, "Stop. The area ahead has the worst weather in America" the White Mountains |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | COLOR $800: In contrast to a blackout, this is a dim-out a brownout |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | WEATHER $100: A 1989 drought in this country caused dry fields in Tuscany & low water levels in Venice Italy |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | WEATHER $200: Hard pellets of ice larger than 5mm are the only true forms of these hail |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | WEATHER $300: They heat the air in their paths to over 45,000° Fahrenheit lightning bolts |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | WEATHER $400: To see one of these, you must stand facing falling rain with your back to the sun rainbow |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | WEATHER $200: During the summer, the people of India pray for these winds to bring heavy rains monsoons |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | WEATHER $400: This forms when the air cools to a dew point of 0°C or below frost |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | WEATHER $600: Geographical word used to describe a New England storm that blows onshore from the Atlantic Nor'easter |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | WEATHER $800: Full name of the WMO, an agency of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | WEATHER $1000: Lightning, thunder & large hail occur only with this type of cloud cumulonimbus |
| #1074, aired 1989-04-13 | INVENTIONS $400: A 1643 invention, Torricelli's inverted tube of mercury was the 1st form of this weather instrument the barometer |
| #1063, aired 1989-03-29 | FAMOUS QUOTES $200: Ben Franklin said, "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest" & this weather condition rain |
| #1056, aired 1989-03-20 | POT LUCK $100: The Eddie Bauer catalog sells a special antifreeze for this manly facial adornment a beard (or mustache) |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | ABBREVIATIONS $200: In weather terms "DP" means dew point; in baseball lingo it stands for this double play |
| #1021, aired 1989-01-30 | BY ZEUS $100: Zeus originated as an Indo-European god of this, which gives him something in common with Willard Scott weather |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | WEATHER $200: Lack of rain keeps pollen in the air & causes extra misery to those who suffer from this condition hay fever |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | WEATHER $400 (Daily Double): Dr. James Hansen, chief of NASA's Institute of Space Studies, blames this predicted phenomenon for the 1988 drought Greenhouse Effect |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | WEATHER $400: In summer, about 100 of these small funnels appear ea. month under ordinary cumulus clouds off Florida waterspouts |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | WEATHER $600: The largest of these reported in the U.S. weighed over 1½ pounds & was found in Kansas in 1970 hailstones |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | WEATHER $800: Named for King Arthur's legendary half sister a Fata Morgana is this type of illusion mirage |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WEATHER $200: The lowest recorded temperature in the U.S. occurred in this state Alaska |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WEATHER $400: This "burns off" when sunlight penetrates it & warms the ground beneath it fog |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WEATHER $600: In polar regions, warm air meeting cold can cause "diamond dust", particles of this in the air ice |
