weather terms

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Across
  1. 3. lacking affection or warmth of feeling
  2. 6. for measuring liquid precipitation over a set period of time.
  3. 8. an expert in or student of meteorology; a weather forecaster.
  4. 9. 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.
  5. 12. 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.
  6. 14. a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
  7. 15. It is the force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
Down
  1. 1. the perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction.
  2. 2. a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas.
  3. 3. cloud forms a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
  4. 4. a prolonged period of abnormally hot weather.
  5. 5. are an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
  6. 7. a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility
  7. 10. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
  8. 11. are a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
  9. 13. these indicate what way the wind is blowing