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Across
  1. 3. produce rapidly rising air currents, usually resulting in heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
  2. 5. when severe winds blow away topsoil into a large, dark cloud that can settle out thousands of miles away
  3. 7. another nickname for a dust storm
  4. 8. the calm center of a low atmospheric pressure system that hurricanes rotate around
  5. 10. usually happen during a warm drought season+severe winds and/or random lightning strikes
  6. 12. Likes to chase mice
  7. 14. Flying mammal
  8. 16. Man's best friend
  9. 18. form in N. Hemisphere, above equator, over either the Atlantic Ocean or the E. Pacific Ocean near the USA
  10. 19. is a region north of the equator in the NW Pacific Ocean off the coast of Asia
  11. 20. Large marsupial
  12. 21. precipitation in the form of small balls or pellets of ice
Down
  1. 1. Has a trunk
  2. 2. the explosive noise that is due to the quickly expanding gases that heat up along the lightning's electrical path
  3. 4. a short, rapid, unexpected flow of muddy water
  4. 6. form near equator in the S. Pacific and Indian Oceans by India, E. Africa, Philippines and Western Australia
  5. 9. severe storms with low temperatures, strong winds and large amounts of snow
  6. 11. 1930's infamous severe drought in central US that intensified the Great Depression
  7. 13. rapidly rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground
  8. 15. a visible electrical charge produced by thunderstorms
  9. 17. are also known as vertical winds