Weather Cross Word Puzzle
Across
- 2. is a line on a weather map connecting equal pressure areas.
- 5. is an extremely powerful and self-sustaining thunderstorm characterized by intense rotating updrafts.
- 6. is narrow wind band that occurs above large temperature that contrasts and can flow as fast as 185 km per hour.
- 8. are 2 global wind systems that flow between 30 degrees N and 30 degrees S where air sinks, warms, and returns to the equator in a W direction.
- 13. the subtropical jet stream occurring where trade winds meet prevailing Westerlies.
- 15. is high pressure.
- 17. are extended periods of time with above average temperatures.
- 18. is a weather forecast using numerical data to predict atmospheric variables will change over time.
- 19. a scale accurately ranking tornadoes according to their destruction, wind speed, and duration.
- 26. is an instrument used to measure air pressure.
- 27. measures the windchill factor through estimation of heat loss of human skin caused by a combo. Of wind and cold air.
- 34. is a violent whirling column of air in the ground's contact.
- 35. is a thunderstorm which air rises due to unequal heating if Earth's surface within a single air mass and is most common During the afternoon.
- 37. is a type of thunderstorm usually produced by and advancing cold front which can result in a line of thunderstorms relatively mild.
- 38. is global wind systems that lie between 60 degrees N through 60 degrees S and the poles and is characterized by cold air.
- 40. occurs when hurricane winds blow a mound of ocean water to coastal areas where it washes over land.
- 41. is a weather instrument used to measure wind speed.
- 42. is an instrument used to measure temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius scale.
- 43. Branch is a channel of positively charged ions that rushes upwards from the ground to the stepped leader.
- 44. are violent local area downdrafts.
- 45. is a change in the frequency occurring because of relative motion of the wave as it moves towards or away from an observer.
Down
- 1. are extended periods of time with below average temperatures.
- 3. is calm center of a tropical cyclone that develops when a cyclone reaches speeds of 120 km/h.
- 4. is global wind system that lie between 30 degrees N through 60 degrees S, where surface area moves to the poles in an east direction.
- 7. is a record of weather for a specific location at a specific time using meteorological symbols.
- 9. is short term variations in atmosphere phenomena interacting or affecting the environment and life on Earth.
- 10. are tropical, large, rotating, low-pressure storms forming during summer-time.
- 11. is a scale classifying hurricanes according to wind speed, potential for flooding (which depends on sea-level), and potential for property damage.
- 12. is a borne weather instrument with sensors measuring air pressure, humidity, temperature, wind speed, and wind direction of the upper atmosphere.
- 14. is area over where an air mass can form.
- 16. is a local air-mass thunderstorm that commonly occurs along a coastal area due to land and water store and release thermal energy differently.
- 20. are extended periods of time with below average rainfall.
- 21. is a band where the strongest winds in a hurricane that surround the eye are usually concentrated.
- 22. is boundary between 2 air masses of differing densities that can be cold, warm, stationary, or occluded and can stretch over large areas of Earth's surface.
- 23. is large volume of air with the characteristics of the area over which it forms.
- 24. is when air rises by orographic lifting.
- 25. is the polar jet stream separating the polar easterlies from the prevailing Westerlies, moving W to E
- 28. is a channel of partially charged air breakdown in charges between positive and negative regions.
- 29. is a part of a world-wide air circulation balancing energy all around the world.
- 30. is a weather instrument used to measure humidity.
- 31. is a weather forecast comparing current weather patterns to ones back then.
- 32. results in fluids and objects in a curved path that curves from the N hemisphere to the S hemisphere.
- 33. air masses that form over tropical or polar regions.
- 36. is long term average variation in weather for an area.
- 39. is a line on a weather map connecting equal temperature areas.