Weather crossword

1. cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
4. sudden, powerful, localized air current, especially a downdraft.
7. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
8. atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
10. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
11. a violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
15. a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.

2. a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
3. the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder.
5. a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail
6. an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
9. he perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction
12. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
13. a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
14. pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.