Weather

1. In marine usage, winds 48 knots (55 miles per hour) or greater.
5. Abnormally dry weather in a region over an extended period sufficient to cause a serious water cycle imbalance in the affected area.
7. An instrument used to measure rainfall amounts.
8. The lowest temperature during a specified time period.
10. In winter, mild refers to four to seven degrees Celsius above normal.
13. Incoming solar radiation. Solar heating; sunshine.

2. A measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to a standard value.
3. Cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus.
4. The combined height of swell and wind waves.
5. Free from rain.
6. Clouds which cover between 5/8ths and 7/8ths of the sky.
9. a mass of very cold, dry air that usually originates over the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Alaska.
11. The change in a substance from a liquid to a solid state.
12. A front (usually a cold front) at which the warm air descents the frontal surface.
14. Air that flows outward from a thunderstorm.