Weather Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a device used to measure atmospheric pressure that helps predict weather
  2. 3. a destructive vortex of rotating winds over land
  3. 6. when rain evaporates before it touches the ground
  4. 7. the state with the most tornados
  5. 8. Effect, circulating wind patterns deflected in a curved pattern
  6. 11. large fluffy clouds that usually lead to thunderstorms
  7. 12. of Insolation, the angle the sun rays hit the Earth
  8. 13. high altitude clouds that appear wispy
  9. 15. pellets of frozen rain that fall from cumulonimbus clouds
  10. 16. Mass, a body of air with uniform temperature and pressure
Down
  1. 1. a storm that often starts as a tropical cyclone and progresses to higher winds
  2. 4. a term added to cloud types that means precipitation
  3. 5. the point on the Earth where the angle of insolation is greatest
  4. 7. the layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs
  5. 9. layered clouds that often appear in lines
  6. 10. clockwise, the rotation of the Earth
  7. 14. Simpson, the name of the rating Hurricane rating system