Weather Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A balloon equipped with meteorological apparatus which is sent into the atmosphere to provide information about the weather.
  2. 5. The necessary items for a particular purpose.
  3. 9. An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
  4. 10. An instrument for measuring the humidity of the air or a gas.
  5. 11. Clouds which have flat bases and are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance
  6. 12. A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
  7. 13. A hygrometer, which is an instrument used to measure the amount of water vapor in the air, consisting of a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer, the difference in the two thermometer readings being used to determine atmospheric humidity.
  8. 16. Pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
  9. 17. Of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body.
  10. 19. An instrument used for showing the direction of the wind.
  11. 21. Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
  12. 23. Not moving or not intended to be moved.
  13. 25. An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature.
  14. 27. A cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.
  15. 28. Stop, close up, or obstruct (an opening, orifice, or passage).
Down
  1. 1. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
  2. 2. An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.
  3. 4. A cloud forming a low layer of clumped or broken gray masses.
  4. 6. A weather front is a transition zone between two different air masses at the Earth's surface. Each air mass has unique temperature and humidity characteristics. Often there is turbulence at a front, which is the borderline where two different air masses come together. The turbulence can cause clouds and storms.
  5. 7. A cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands.
  6. 8. A cloud forming a thin, more or less uniform, semitranslucent layer at high altitude.
  7. 14. gauge A device for collecting and measuring the amount of rain which falls.
  8. 15. sock A light, flexible cylinder or cone mounted on a mast to show the direction and strength of the wind, especially at an airfield.
  9. 18. A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
  10. 20. A cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
  11. 22. Of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature.
  12. 24. Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
  13. 26. A type of cloud forming a thick uniform gray layer at low altitude, from which rain or snow often falls without any lightning or thunder.