Across
- 2. Precipitation of small balls or other pieces of ice (hailstones) falling separately or frozen together in irregular lumps.
- 5. High flow, overflow, or inundation of a normally dry area that causes or threatens damage.
- 7. The historical record of average daily and seasonal weather events.
- 8. Precipitation of liquid water particles which, in contrast to drizzle, are widely separated and larger in size.
- 9. Water droplets are suspended in the air near the Earth's surface and cause reduced visibilities.
- 10. an area where high surface winds have picked up loose dust, reducing visibility to less than one-half mile.
- 14. An ocean wave generated by a submarine earthquake, volcano or landslide.
- 15. is a soil layer below the surface of tundra regions that remains frozen permanently.
Down
- 1. An electrical discharge from a thunderstorm.
- 3. Liquid or solid water molecules fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground.
- 4. A form of oxygen containing 3 molecules, usually found in the stratosphere, and responsible for filtering out much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
- 6. is the process of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas
- 11. very fine water droplets at ground level
- 12. A brief sudden increase in wind speed. Generally, the duration is less than 20 seconds, and the fluctuation is greater than 10 mph.
- 13. Optical phenomenon when light is refracted and reflected by moisture in the air into concentric arcs of color.