Weather

1. The visible aggregate of minute water droplets and/or ice particles in the atmosphere above the earths's surface.
6. An anticyclone. An area of atmospheric pressure with closed isobars and relative high pressure at its center. Air flows clockwise around a high.
8. Air in horizontal motion relative to the surface of the earth.
10. The leading edge of a relatively cold air mass.
13. A period of moisture deficiency, extensive in space and time.
14. Relatively strong winds concentrated within a narrow stream in the atmosphere.
16. A closed isobaric circulation in the atmosphere, with counter-clockwise rotation in the northern hemisphere.

2. All the various visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms. It can be cloud to cloud, cloud to ground, or cloud to air.
3. A local storm produced by cumulonimbus clouds accompanied by lightning and thunder...often containing heavy rain...and sometimes strong winds and hail.
4. A transition zone between two air masses of different density.
5. The general term for a cyclone that originates over the tropical oceans. The remnants of these storms occasionally recurve and move into the mid-latitude westerlies, bringing considerable moisture with them.
7. The state of the atmosphere, usually short term, with respect to its effects upon life, property and human activities.
9. A violently rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud observed as a funnel cloud.
11. In meteorology, usually refers to cyclonic storms with considerable cloud and precipitation areas.
12. The statistical collective of weather conditions over a specified period of time
15. Same as cloud except base of cloud is touching earth's surface.