Weather
Across
- 7. The warming of the Earth's surface and the air above it caused by gases in the air that trap energy from the sun
- 8. A narrow, variable band of very strong, predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
- 9. The forward edge of an advancing mass of warm air that rises over and replaces a retreating mass of cooler air. Warm fronts often cause steady precipitation.
- 11. Is a large volume of air in the atmosphere that is mostly uniform in temperature and moisture.
- 13. Cloud type that appears feathery or wispy, ¨curl of hair¨, from in very high altitude and made of ice crystals
- 14. An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure.
- 15. An instrument used to measure humidity
Down
- 1. The force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air
- 2. A device that measure wind direction
- 3. The change in pressure measured across a given distance
- 4. Fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants
- 5. A storm with thunder and lighting and typically also heavy rain of hail
- 6. Cloud type that forms in flat layers when air cools over a large area, ¨spread out¨, tend to produce steady,light precipitation
- 10. Clouds that produce precipitation
- 12. A violent, tropical, cyclone storm of the North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour.