Across
- 3. produce rapidly rising air currents, usually resulting in heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
- 5. when severe winds blow away topsoil into a large, dark cloud that can settle out thousands of miles away
- 7. another nickname for a dust storm
- 8. the calm center of a low atmospheric pressure system that hurricanes rotate around
- 10. usually happen during a warm drought season+severe winds and/or random lightning strikes
- 12. Likes to chase mice
- 14. Flying mammal
- 16. Man's best friend
- 18. form in N. Hemisphere, above equator, over either the Atlantic Ocean or the E. Pacific Ocean near the USA
- 19. is a region north of the equator in the NW Pacific Ocean off the coast of Asia
- 20. Large marsupial
- 21. precipitation in the form of small balls or pellets of ice
Down
- 1. Has a trunk
- 2. the explosive noise that is due to the quickly expanding gases that heat up along the lightning's electrical path
- 4. a short, rapid, unexpected flow of muddy water
- 6. form near equator in the S. Pacific and Indian Oceans by India, E. Africa, Philippines and Western Australia
- 9. severe storms with low temperatures, strong winds and large amounts of snow
- 11. 1930's infamous severe drought in central US that intensified the Great Depression
- 13. rapidly rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground
- 15. a visible electrical charge produced by thunderstorms
- 17. are also known as vertical winds