Across
- 2. a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74mph
- 5. a large body of air
- 8. measures humidity by taking both a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb temperature reading
- 10. is a type of air current that forms high in the atmosphere
- 12. instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
- 13. determined by Pressure
- 14. Rising global average temperature
- 18. low-pressure system moves into an area
Down
- 1. is the amount of water vapor in the air
- 3. dry weather with sunshine
- 4. strong ocean current that brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean
- 6. a transition zone between two different air masses
- 7. instrument that measures wind speed
- 9. vertical transport of heat
- 11. During the day, sunlight heats the ground
- 15. weather describes the state of the atmosphere
- 16. well-organized storms
- 17. generally from the southwest for 10 months of the year