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Alright, here's the answer to the trivia question from Tuesday/Wednesday.
Sticking with meteorology and hurricane season records. What is the earliest on record that a tropical storm/hurricane has formed in the year?
Answer: B. A hurricane formed east of the Azores islands on January 3rd, 1938 (found as part of an ongoing project by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to catalog missing storms from the hurricane database.
Thursday/Friday's questionSticking with meteorology. A couple months ago, we learned about radar holes (holes in the US' nationwide nexrad network). Why are these holes so bad to have?
A: Missing tornadoes due to distance from radar
B: Radar scans in a straight line/curvature of the earth
C: Heavier reliance on ground truth/storm chasers
D: All of the aboveAnswer to come with the next new question Friday around 10 pm or so.