weather

4. A heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
6. (n) A weather prediction ; (v) To predict the weatherbased on a study of the weather-related data.
9. The gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
10. A long period of less-than-normal rainfall in an area ; it can damage crops and cause a shortage of water for people.
11. The process that changes water to vapor to liquid water again ; it occurs when water vapor cools.
12. Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice.
15. A tool that measures wind speed.
18. A person who studies meteorology.
19. A low flat cloud form.
20. The process that changes liquid water to vapor.
22. The conditions and changes in the atmosphere.
24. Frozen or partly frozen rain.

1. An imaginary line around the center of the Earth.
2. A wispy cloud form that does not produce rain but may mean the weather will change.
3. Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere.
5. Water in the form of a gas.
7. A dense, puffy cloud form with a flat bottom and rounded top ; these clouds are fluffy on sunny days, but the piled-up towering ones produce rain and thunderstorms.
8. A spacecraft with instruments and cameras to observe the Earth atmosphere .
13. The air around the Earth.
14. The study of the atmosphere, weather, and forecasting the weather.
16. A spinning air mass inside a thunderstorm that may create a tornado.
17. A destructive windstorm over land with a whirling funnel cloud that extends toward the ground.
21. A tool used to measure atmospheric conditions that is dropped with a parachute from a plane.
23. An instrument that uses radio waves to find rain.