Across
- 5. rain rain that freezes on impact with the ground or solid objects
- 7. a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km).
- 8. a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
- 9. a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
- 11. a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
- 12. a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail
- 13. a colorless, odorless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
- 14. A cold front occurs when a mass of comparatively colder air moves into where warmer air is present.
Down
- 1. a type of cloud forming a thick uniform gray layer at low altitude, from which rain or snow often falls
- 2. a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow
- 3. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
- 4. an instrument for measuring the humidity of the air or a gas.
- 6. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
- 8. an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
- 10. the chemical element of atomic number 7, a colorless, odorless unreactive gas that forms about 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere