Across
- 2. Produced by advancing fronts
- 7. Extended period of above-average temperatures
- 8. Stored energy in water vapor that is not released to warm the atmosphere until condensation occurs
- 10. Violent downdrafts concentrated in a local area
- 11. Large body of air that takes on the characteristics of the area over which it forms
- 12. Estimates and measures how cold the air feels on the human body
- 13. Extended period of well-below-average rainfall
- 14. When air rises due to unequal heating of the Earth’s surface within an air mass
- 16. Extended period of below-average temperatures
Down
- 1. Assigns a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage
- 3. Channel of partially charged air
- 4. Local air mass thunderstorms that occur because land and water storage and release thermal energy differently
- 5. Occurs when air rises from orographic lifting which involves air moving up a mountain
- 6. Self-sustaining, extremely powerful storms
- 9. Branched channel of positively charged particles
- 15. Violent whirling column of air in contact with the ground