Across
- 1. A sudden, intense rainfall that is normally of short duration.
- 2. Cirrus clouds with a flat sheetlike appearance.
- 4. A short-term weather forecast, generally out to six hours or less.
- 6. Optical phenomena when light is refracted and reflected by moisture in the air into concentric arcs of color. Raindrops act like prisms, breaking the light into the colors of a rainbow, with red on the outer, and blue on the inner edge.
- 8. the standard scale used to measure temperature in the United States; in which the freezing point of water is thirty-two degrees and the boiling point is two hundred and twelve degrees.
- 12. A line of equal temperature on a weather map.
- 13. a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid; composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
- 14. Any form of visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms
Down
- 1. A device used to evaluate the height of clouds or the vertical visibility into a surface-based obscuration.
- 3. A form of oxygen in which the molecule is made of 3 atoms instead of the usual two. Ozone is usually found in the stratosphere, and responsible for filtering out much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. It is also a primary component of smog.
- 5. Wind in the range of 15 to 25 mph when the temperature is cold.
- 7. Air that flows outward from a thunderstorm.
- 9. A plot representing the vertical distribution of horizontal winds, using polar coordinates. A hodograph is obtained by plotting the end points of the wind vectors at various altitudes, and connecting these points in order of increasing height.
- 10. The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
- 11. Incoming solar radiation. Solar heating; sunshine.