Across
- 2. Abnormally dry weather in a region over an extended period.
- 6. the process of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas.
- 9. Liquid water droplets that fall from the atmosphere.
- 10. Any form of visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms.
- 12. A violent rotating column of air.
- 13. Water that has condensed close to ground levee.
- 15. Flood A flood that occurs within a few hours of heavy or excessive rainfall, dam or levee failure.
Down
- 1. Rain Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants.
- 3. Energy emitted in the form of electromagnetic waves.
- 4. Precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice produced by liquid precipitation, freezing and being coated by layers of ice as it is lifted and cooled in strong updrafts of thunderstorms.
- 5. Effect / The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of longwave radiation (heat) being radiated to space.
- 7. An instrument used to detect precipitation by measuring the strength of the electromagnetic signal reflected back.
- 8. A visible cluster of tiny water and/or ice particles in the atmosphere.
- 11. warming A theory that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing an elevation in the Earth's surface temperature.
- 14. Consists of microscopic water droplets suspended in the air which produce a thin grayish veil over the landscape.