Severe Weather Awareness
Across
- 1. an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
- 7. What you use to see if the lights go out
- 9. frozen or partly frozen rain
- 11. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops
- 12. a notice that alerts the public to an imminent hazard such as a tornado, thunderstorm or flood
- 13. atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
- 15. the act or fact of living or continuing longer than another person or thing
- 16. To keep guard
- 17. the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness,moisture, pressure, etc
- 18. a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge
- 19. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system
- 20. a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility
Down
- 2. the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder
- 3. When flying can be deadly, may consists of sheet metal roofing, boards and glass
- 4. pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
- 5. a storm with violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean
- 6. Harsh/extreme
- 8. Food, water clothing, medications, nonperishable food items
- 10. a storm accompanied by lightning and thunder
- 14. type of radio to use in the event of severe weather
- 15. a place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger.