Weather Vocab. Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74mph
  2. 5. a large body of air
  3. 8. measures humidity by taking both a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb temperature reading
  4. 10. is a type of air current that forms high in the atmosphere
  5. 12. instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
  6. 13. determined by Pressure
  7. 14. Rising global average temperature
  8. 18. low-pressure system moves into an area
Down
  1. 1. is the amount of water vapor in the air
  2. 3. dry weather with sunshine
  3. 4. strong ocean current that brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean
  4. 6. a transition zone between two different air masses
  5. 7. instrument that measures wind speed
  6. 9. vertical transport of heat
  7. 11. During the day, sunlight heats the ground
  8. 15. weather describes the state of the atmosphere
  9. 16. well-organized storms
  10. 17. generally from the southwest for 10 months of the year