Weather Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Line-A solid or nearly solid line or band of active thunderstorms.20
  2. 6. process by which water vapor becomes a liquid.6
  3. 9. - A low, gray cloud layer with a rather uniform base whose precipitation is most commonly drizzle.21
  4. 10. mixture of gases that surrounds a planet, moon, or other celestial body.1
  5. 11. Point-The temperature to which the air must be cooled to condense. For example, if the air temperature was 65 degrees and the dew point was 65 degrees the humidity would be 100% and the air would be totally saturated. The larger the spread of temperature and dew point, the drier the air. This spread is called the dew point depression.9
  6. 13. transition zone between two different air masses.13
  7. 14. weather condition characterized by low temperatures and strong winds (greater than 35mph) bearing a great amount of either falling or blowing snow.3
  8. 17. air rising or cold air sinking or both.7
  9. 20. period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently long enough to cause serious effects on agriculture and other activities in the affected area.10
  10. 22. - Temperature is a measure of the heat content of a body (the atmosphere in the case of weather). The molecular motion of a substance creates energy, which can be measured in terms of the heat it generates. Air, water, and soil can all be measured for temperature.22
Down
  1. 1. filling with water of a normally dry area of land caused by an increased water level in a stream, river or drainage ditch or by the ponding of rainwater.11
  2. 2. high cloud composed of ice crystals in the form of thin, white, featherlike clouds in patches, filaments, or narrow bands.4
  3. 3. - A local storm produced by cumulonimbus clouds. Always accompanied by lightning and thunder.23
  4. 4. form of water particles - liquid or solid-that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.18
  5. 7. severe tropical cyclone having winds in excess of 64 knots (74 mi/hr).16
  6. 8. accumulation of daily and seasonal weather events over a long period of time.5
  7. 12. or chunks of ice larger than 1/4 inch in diameter which are produced due to strong updrafts in thunderstorms.15
  8. 15. visible electrical discharge produced by thunderstorms.17
  9. 16. instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.2
  10. 17. cloud in the form of individual, detached domes or towers that are usually dense and well defined.8
  11. 18. type of precipitation consisting of transparent pellets of ice 5 millimeters or less in diameter. Sleet is rainfall that freezes before it hits the ground.19
  12. 19. condition occurring over a widespread area when the surface air temperature remains below freezing for a sufficient time to damage certain agricultural crops.12
  13. 21. - A hurricane that forms in the western Pacific ocean.25
  14. 23. - An intense, rotating column of air that protrudes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the shape of a funnel or a rope whose circulation is present on the ground.24