weather
Across
- 2. amount of water vapor held in the air.
- 6. clouds from when warm air is pushed over cold air.
- 8. a device that measures how much precipitation has fallen
- 9. a state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place
- 10. point temperature at which air is saturated and condensation form
- 12. mass large body of air that has the same characteristics of temperature and moisture content as a par of Earth's surface over which it formed.
- 13. studies weather and uses information from Doppler radar satellite computer and other instruments to make weather map provide forcast.
- 15. lines drawn on a weather map that connect points having equal atmospheric pressure
- 17. vane a device that moves to show which way the wind is blowing
- 18. boundary between two air masses with different temperature
Down
- 1. clouds are made of ice crystals. They are thin wispy clouds located high in the sky
- 2. large severe storm that forms over tropical ocean, has winds of at lesat 120km and loses power when it reaches land.
- 3. violent whirling windstorm that crosses land in a narrow path and can result from wind shears inside a thunderhead isotherm line drawn on a weather map that connects points having equal temperature
- 4. puffy white clouds formed as large bubbles of warm air rapidly rise into the atmosphere
- 5. a winter storm that last at least three hours with temperature of 12c
- 7. water falling from clouds including rain snow sleet and hail
- 11. a state cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground
- 14. humidity measure of the amount of moisture held in the air
- 16. model indicates weather conditions at a specific location.