X-PRESS CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1: WEATHER
Across
- 4. Thick cloud at ground level, reducing visibility
- 6. Extremely strong, rotating column of air
- 8. Protective outer garment for wet weather
- 11. Heavy snow with strong winds
- 12. Warm, dry wind descending the lee of mountains
- 15. Line of intense thunderstorms preceding a cold front: "___ Line"
- 22. Weather phenomenon often seen after rain
- 24. Period of unusually high temperature
- 25. Storm with heavy rain and strong winds
- 26. Combination of thunder, lightning, and heavy rain
- 28. Rapid flow of snow down a slope
- 29. Movie title: 1998 film starring Aidan Quinn
- 30. Frozen raindrops
- 31. Sudden heavy rain
- 32. Idiom: Every ___ has a silver lining
- 35. Beatles lyric: "Here comes the ___"
- 36. Idiom: "April ___ bring May flowers"
- 37. Sudden short-lived windstorm
Down
- 1. Painful freezing of skin due to extreme cold
- 2. A violent rotating storm
- 3. Song lyric: "You are my ___ day" by Bobby Hebb
- 5. Extremely hot, dry wind in some mountainous regions
- 7. Brief period of intense cold
- 9. Clouds that form at high altitude
- 10. Frozen precipitation falling from the sky
- 13. Thunderstorm with strong winds and hail
- 14. Movie title: 2007 romantic drama
- 16. Sudden electrostatic discharge during a storm
- 17. Snowstorm with strong winds
- 18. Invisible ice forming on roads, dangerous to drivers
- 19. Extreme cold wave or condition
- 20. Expression: "Under the ___" – meaning in trouble
- 21. Tropical cyclone with violent winds and heavy rain
- 23. A gentle breeze
- 27. Song lyric: "It's ___ men" by The Weather Girls
- 29. Idiom: Expression to pursue the impossible: "Chase the ___"
- 32. Type of cloud often signalling fair weather
- 33. Very fine, gentle rain
- 34. Seasonal heavy rain in certain regions