Across
- 3. Front type of front shown in purple with alternating circles and triangles on one side of line
- 5. Front this type of front moves quickly, overtaking area with warm air, causing quick heavy rain
- 10. this process turns water vapor back into liquid to make clouds visible
- 11. Balloon an instrument for measuring weather from high in the troposphere, lower stratosphere
- 12. Radar an instrument for measuring precipitation location, type, and motion
- 15. rain cloud
- 17. an instrument for measuring temperature
- 18. Front this type of front is when warm air moves into area of cold air; often form stratus clouds
- 19. the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level
- 20. Pressure System winds rotate clockwise around this type of pressure center; associated with clear nice weather
- 21. thin wispy high altitude clouds
- 23. System winds rotate counter-clockwise around this type of pressure center; associated with clouds and precipitation
Down
- 1. an instrument for measuring humidity
- 2. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground
- 4. Point the temperature at which condensation begins
- 6. the amount of water vapor in the air
- 7. Front type of front occurs when warm and cold air mass meet and stay still
- 8. Vane an instrument for measuring wind direction
- 9. an instrument for measuring the speed of the wind
- 13. puffy clouds with flat bottom
- 14. an expert in meteorology; a weather forecaster
- 16. layered gray blanket clouds; bring steady light rain
- 18. Satellite instruments for measuring weather and climate on Earth from space
- 22. an instrument for measuring air pressure