Weather Patterns and severe Storms

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Across
  1. 1. blanket of air surrounding the earth
  2. 4. Curved bands of clouds and thunderstorms that trail away from the eye wall in a spiral fashion.
  3. 5. other name for cyclones in the Philippines
  4. 6. Warm fronts often bring _____ weather as the warm air mass at the surface rises above the cool air mass, making clouds and storms.
  5. 9. type of air mass that has cold air
  6. 10. Region of mostly calm weather at the center of tropical cyclones.
  7. 11. means obstructed
  8. 16. areas air masses originate from
  9. 19. the difference in temperature can indicate the what of a weather front
  10. 24. forms when a cold air mass pushes into a warmer air mass.
  11. 26. large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure.
  12. 27. the imaginary line separating the earth into two
  13. 28. people who study weather
  14. 29. is a large volume of air in the atmosphere that is mostly uniform in temperature and moisture.
  15. 32. the two halves separated by the equator which are the northern and southern _____
  16. 34. first step in weather forecasting
  17. 35. regions at the extremities of each hemisphere
  18. 36. people that forecast the weather
  19. 38. type of air mass which is warm
  20. 39. large scale
  21. 40. Have wider wind fields with the maximum sustained winds located further from the center than typical tropical cyclones.
Down
  1. 2. means not moving
  2. 3. Also known as typhoons or hurricanes.
  3. 7. the cold air mass from the cold front meets the cool air that was ahead of the warm front. The warm air rises as these air masses come together.
  4. 8. second step in weather forecasting
  5. 12. third step in weather forecasting
  6. 13. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud.
  7. 14. Consists of a ring of tall thunderstorms that produce heavy rains and strongest winds.
  8. 15. storms with thunder
  9. 17. forms when a cold front or warm front stops moving.
  10. 18. forms when a warm air mass pushes into a cooler air mass.
  11. 20. region above/below the equator
  12. 21. an area that would rain is said to have this pressure
  13. 22. Predicting weather phenomenons based on previous data and communicating it to people.
  14. 23. region between the tropical and polar regions.
  15. 25. types of clouds found in storms
  16. 30. is a boundary between two air masses.
  17. 31. a storm with large amounts of snow or blowing snow
  18. 33. Also called wave cyclone or midlatitude cyclone
  19. 37. region nearest to the equator