Across
- 4. originate over the oceans and are therefore moist air masses
- 5. a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow
- 7. originating in the tropics and characterized by high temperature and humidity
- 8. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops
- 11. can be in form of rain, snow, and sleet
- 12. low-level layers with a fairly uniform grey or white color
- 13. convective cloud or cloud system that produces rainfall and lightning
- 15. created when two air masses meet
Down
- 1. the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid
- 2. the process of turning from liquid into vapor
- 3. pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
- 6. thin, wispy clouds blown in high winds into long streamers
- 9. period of time with little to no rain
- 10. a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure
- 14. water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer