Weather Forecast

3. A spinning air mass inside a thunderstorm that may create a tornado.
5. Water in the form of a gas.
9. Frozen or partly frozen rain.
10. The study of the atmosphere, weather, and forecasting the weather.
13. A dense, puffy cloud form with a flat bottom and rounded top ; these clouds are fluffy on sunny days, but the piled-up towering ones produce rain and thunderstorms.
14. The process that changes water to vapor to liquid water again ; it occurs when water vapor cools.
16. The air around the Earth.
19. A heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
20. An instrument that uses radio waves to find rain.
22. (n) A weather prediction ; (v) To predict the weather based on a study of the weather-related data.
24. An imaginary line around the center of the Earth.

1. Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice.
2. A tool used to measure atmospheric conditions that is dropped with a parachute from a plane.
4. A wispy cloud form that does not produce rain but may mean the weather will change.
6. A tool that measures wind speed.
7. The conditions and changes in the atmosphere.
8. A destructive windstorm over land with a whirling funnel cloud that extends toward the ground.
11. Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere.
12. A long period of less-than-normal rainfall in an area ; it can damage crops and cause a shortage of water for people.
15. A spacecraft with instruments and cameras to observe the Earth atmosphere .
17. The process that changes liquid water to vapor.
18. The gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
21. A low flat cloud form.
23. A person who studies meteorology.