Weather Forecasts

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