Weather Forecasts

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Across
  1. 3. vapor moisture in the air created by water in a gas form
  2. 5. moving air
  3. 6. a large collection of tiny water droplets or ice crystals floating in air
  4. 7. electric current flowing from a cloud
  5. 12. the tool used to measure wind speed
  6. 15. wind is made when warm ______ rises and cold _____ sinks making a cycle of moving _______
  7. 18. a scientist that studies and predicts weather
  8. 21. the scale that classifies hurricanes on their wind speed, storm surge, and damage
  9. 24. you should count the _______ between the time you see lightning to the time you hear the thunder to see how far away the storm is
  10. 27. the scale used to classify the severity of a tornado
  11. 28. the average weather over many years
  12. 29. the tool used to measure air pressure
  13. 30. clouds that are white and puffy
  14. 31. the temperature of air that holds little water vapor
  15. 34. a Strom with lightning and thunder
  16. 36. a violent rotating column of air
  17. 37. rain that freezes as it falls to the ground
  18. 38. how a day with high humidity makes you feel
Down
  1. 1. water droplets falling from the clouds
  2. 2. the way relative humidity is given in a weather forecast
  3. 4. the highest category of wind speed
  4. 8. the tool used to measure air temperature
  5. 9. lumps of ice that fall from cumulonimbus clouds
  6. 10. the name of the wind scale used to rank wind speeds
  7. 11. humidity is the actual percentage of water vapor that is measured in the air at a given time
  8. 13. water in solid or liquid form that falls from the air to Earth
  9. 14. the temperature of air that can hold a lot of water vapor
  10. 16. the process of water vapor turning back into liquid water
  11. 17. how many water droplets are needed to make one cloud
  12. 19. storm forming over the ocean with heavy rain, strong winds, and storm surges
  13. 20. the state of the atmosphere at a specific time
  14. 21. clouds that are gray and cover the entire sky
  15. 22. a rotating cone-shaped column of air extending downward from a thunderstorm
  16. 23. the tool used to measure humidity
  17. 25. scientists alternate between an alphabetical list of men's and woman's names to _________ a hurricane
  18. 26. water vapor that turns directly to ice
  19. 32. water vapor in the air creates this
  20. 33. the highest clouds in the sky
  21. 34. created when the lightning creates a hole and the air collapses around it
  22. 35. point the temperature that water vapor turns into liquid water