Weather Terms

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Across
  1. 6. A cloud forming a low layer of clumped or broken gray masses.
  2. 7. A device for collecting and measuring the amount of rain which falls.
  3. 11. A cloud forming a thin, more or less uniform, semitranslucent layer at high altitude.
  4. 12. The necessary items for a particular purpose.
  5. 13. A balloon equipped with meteorological apparatus which is sent into the atmosphere to provide information about the weather.
  6. 14. A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
  7. 16. A cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands.
  8. 19. Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
  9. 21. 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.
  10. 23. An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.
  11. 25. An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
  12. 26. A light, flexible cylinder or cone mounted on a mast to show the direction and strength of the wind, especially at an airfield.
Down
  1. 1. An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature.
  2. 2. An instrument for measuring the humidity of the air or a gas.
  3. 3. 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.
  4. 4. Of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature.
  5. 5. A cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
  6. 8. Stop, close up, or obstruct (an opening, orifice, or passage).
  7. 9. A cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.
  8. 10. 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.
  9. 15. 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.
  10. 17. Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
  11. 18. Clouds which have flat bases and are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance
  12. 19. Not moving or not intended to be moved.
  13. 20. An instrument used for showing the direction of the wind.
  14. 22. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
  15. 24. Pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.