Weather 2

3. Clouds from the Latin cumulus ("heap") and nimbus ("rainstorm", "storm cloud"), is a dense towering vertical cloud
4. a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.
5. also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, or a thundershower, is a type of storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.
7. System developed by Dr. Theodore Fujita to classify tornadoes based on wind damage
9. is a weather phenomenon defined by the United States National Weather Service's glossary as "a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure.
12. liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated
13. a volume of air defined by its temperature and water vapor content.
14. a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean

1. a form of solid precipitation.
2. unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon.
3. is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth.[1][2] This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth.
6. a layer of gases surrounding a planet or other material body of sufficient mass[3] that is held in place by the gravity of the body.
8. a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 56 km/h (35 mph) and lasting for a prolonged period of time
10. a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
11. Flood a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm.