Across
- 3. pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
- 7. a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
- 8. a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail.
- 12. 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.
- 15. the perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction.
Down
- 1. clouds covering a large part of the sky.
- 2. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
- 4. a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.
- 5. a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas.
- 6. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
- 9. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
- 10. an 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.
- 11. a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
- 13. pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
- 14. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.