Weather Crossword
Across
- 2. A cloud formation of rounded fluffy white/grey masses mid-altitude in patches or waves of clouds
- 5. A low-altitude shapeless foggy cloud
- 7. Air flows from ____ to _____ pressure
- 8. Water in gas form
- 10. Extremely dense cloud developed vertically usually with heavy rains or thunderstorms
- 13. A measure of how hot or cold something is
- 16. A transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass and the warm air slides over the top of the cold air
- 17. The leading edge of a cool mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air usually near low pressure
- 18. A high-altitude cloud made of clumps of wispy clouds can look like ripples or waves
- 19. A collection of millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals
- 21. A composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft
- 22. High-altitude ice-crystal clouds wispy rain coming in the next 48 hours
- 23. Low-altitude grey cloud often a dark sheet of cloud that precipitates rain snow or sleet
Down
- 1. Low-altitude fluffy cauliflower-looking cloud often during fair weather
- 3. A transition zone between two air masses and neither air mass is advancing into the other
- 4. When water vapor cools and changes back into liquid
- 6. Process in which matter changes from a liquid to a gas
- 9. Sea breezes happen mostly during the _________ in Seattle
- 11. Low-altitude fluffy grey clumps of cloud often covering the whole sky but with small breaks
- 12. Almost all weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere
- 14. Mid-altitude cloud formation of bluish or grey sheets or layers of cloud which can develop into rain clouds
- 15. A high-altitude thin hazy cloud usually covering the whole sky and bringing rain within 12hrs
- 20. A thick cloud of water vapor that has been squeezed out of the air as it cools near the ground