Weather Vocab
Across
- 5. the movement of air, especially in the form of a current blowing from a particular direction
- 6. a strong rotating tropical storm with extreme high speed winds
- 8. the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
- 9. strong storms with thunder and lightning; typically featuring heavy rain or hail
- 11. a type of precipitation that consists of ice pellets mixed with rain or snow
- 12. the water that falls to the ground in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail
Down
- 1. violent rotating winds that have the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud
- 2. pellets of frozen rain which falls as showers of ice
- 3. a natural electrical discharge within a cloud or between a cloud and the ground
- 4. water that has frozen into ice crystals and falls in light white flakes
- 7. the degree or intensity of heat that is present
- 10. rain precipitation that falls as rain but freezes as it lands
- 13. liquid water in the form of droplets that falls from the sky