Across
- 2. a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
- 6. the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.
- 8. the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder.
- 9. loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air.
- 10. arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere.
- 14. prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall
Down
- 1. quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or a gas.
- 3. a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
- 4. pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
- 5. atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
- 7. visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
- 11. Height expressed above sea level or ground level.
- 12. form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
- 13. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
- 15. Warning: an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- 16. Pressure- the average sea-level