Across
- 3. a substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid
- 5. the rising of water (usually cold) toward the surface from the deeper regions of a body of water
- 7. a severe tropical cyclone having winds in excess of 64 knots (74 mi/hr)
- 9. very thin fog in which visibility is greater than 1.0 km (0.62 mi)
- 11. season that marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier and the temperature cools considerably
- 12. a strong wind carrying clouds of sand with it, especially in a desert
- 13. a mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something
- 15. an instrument used to measure temperature
- 16. solid precipitation in the form of chunks or balls of ice with diameters greater than 5 mm
- 17. frozen water, a brittle, transparent crystalline solid
- 20. a hanging, tapering piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water
- 21. the various mechanical and chemical processes that cause exposed rock to decompose
- 24. marked by a covering of gray clouds; dull
- 26. partially melted snow or ice
- 27. one nautical mile per hour
- 29. the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization.
- 31. an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions.
- 32. issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, imminent, or likely
- 33. the state of the atmosphere in terms of such variables as temperature, cloudiness, precipitation, and radiation
- 34. of or relating to the North or South Pole
- 35. of, typical of, or peculiar to the tropics
- 36. a form of energy transferred between systems by virtue of their temperature differences
Down
- 1. fine dry or wet dust or salt particles dispersed through a portion of the atmosphere. Individually these are not visible but cumulatively they will diminish visibility
- 2. a substance that pollutes something, especially water or the atmosphere
- 4. unpleasantly warm and humid
- 6. a column of air moving rapidly around and around in a cylindrical or funnel shape
- 7. all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds
- 8. a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore
- 10. the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February
- 13. the time immediately before sunrise and after sunset when the sky remain illuminated
- 14. the force per unit area that one region of a gas, liquid, or solid exerts on another
- 18. the standard international base unit of thermodynamic temperature, equal in magnitude to the degree Celsius
- 19. an increase in air temperature with height
- 22. a hurricane that forms in the western Pacific Ocean
- 23. water or other liquid diffused in a small quantity as vapor, within a solid, or condensed on a surface
- 25. the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November
- 26. smoke and fog
- 28. the event of a storm moving over land after being over water
- 30. the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter
- 32. the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August