weather crossword

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Across
  1. 3. water that is condensed
  2. 4. a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near the earth's surface appreciably reducing visibility.
  3. 5. front, a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  4. 7. any instrument for measuring the speed of the wind.
  5. 8. rain, is rain that falls as a liquid but freezes into a glaze upon contact with the ground.
  6. 10. front, a front between warm and cold air masses moving very slowly or not at all.
  7. 11. is a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere occurring within a thundercloud between clouds or between a cloud and the ground.
  8. 13. a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris
  9. 14. vane, a device as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached for indicating the direction of the wind.
  10. 15. and supercooled water which is refrozen in the atmosphere before falling back to the ground as a sizable ice ball
Down
  1. 1. humidity, the amount of water vapor in the air
  2. 2. long periods of little to no rain in a certain area.
  3. 6. the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water
  4. 9. form in waters with surface temperatures of about 80°F intensifying as temperatures rise.
  5. 12. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.