Weather vocab
Across
- 4. light, feathery, and wispy. High in the sky
- 5. cold overtakes warm and pushes up meeting more cold → not as severe
- 7. violent disturbance in the atmosphere called severe weather
- 11. warm air overtakes cold and moves over it → *hot and humid weather
- 12. when a cold front moves in and meets a warm front.it has heavy rain, thunder and lightning High winds, Downed trees and powerlines.
- 13. violent winter storm characterized by freezing temperatures strong winds and blowing snow
- 15. Rainy, cloudy weather with a temperature relative to the season with a slight increase or decrease.
Down
- 1. white and fluffy associated with fair weather. Dark, big and fluffy they are associated with severe weather
- 2. Clear sunny weather with temperatures relative to the seasons.
- 3. a large rotating storm with high wind speeds (greater than 74 mps) that form over warm water in tropical areas.
- 6. a violent funnel shaped storm that move in a narrow path over land. Appearance is from the debris and dirt picked up by the winds.
- 8. cold air masses meet warm air and push up → severe weather
- 9. flat, gray, ripple, cover the sky.they bring heavy rain and snow.
- 10. warm meets cold with no movement → *rain for days and days.
- 14. large bodies of air that have uniform temperature, humidity and pressure